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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C, C++).

• Experience with data structures or algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with mobile app development and test automation.

• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Java and Python), programming practices, major features and capabilities, and system management tools.

• Ability to debug and fix program code or system issues (e.g., firmware, software, application, operational, process).

• Ability to define software architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to validate correctness, functionality, reliability, and other characteristics.

• Passion for tools and infrastructure.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. 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’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. 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.

At Google Home, the mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. The team is constantly innovating and extending boundaries across devices, surfaces, apps, and ecosystems. Google Home Engineering Productivity drives velocity and quality for the software stack that powers the helpful home by building tooling, scalable test infrastructure, and driving quality insights into the development process.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Nest team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

• Work with multiple teams across organizations and regions to solve technical problems that enable feature teams to ship code.

• Lead on scalable infrastructure that spans across device software, services, and apps.

• Deliver infrastructure to testing components and products based on knowledge of differences and considerations for each test phase (e.g., validity, verification, performance, reliability, usability, stress testing) and develop tests to prove infrastructure.

• Generate ideas to solve technical problems and take ownership of the solution.

• Build working collaborations with cross-functional peers, and identify and share opportunities and technical context that inform cross-functional efforts.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.