Senior Staff Engineer, Fleet Economy Services, Google Cloud

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed software systems (e.g., Java, C++, or Python).

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Fleet Economy Services team in Cloud, OneFleet organization builds systems to support publishing of trustworthy and up-to-date resource costs along with projections, utilization, efficiency, and inventory metrics to drive data-based economically optimal decisions for Google's compute, storage, and network, directly impacting infrastructure planning.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implement new systems from the ground up.
• Build our next generation of infrastructure to deliver reliable and trustworthy data on resource economic costs and consumption/efficiency metrics for Google decision makers.
• Partner with teams within Cloud Product Area to surface infrastructure costs and metrics insights to enable GMs, Product, and Finance teams to pinpoint opportunities for resource utilization efficiencies.
• Solve complex problems by diagnosing data flows through multiple systems and analyzing anomalies to validate changes or isolate bugs.