Google Looking For Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Fuchsia Developer Tooling at San Francisco, CA Full Time

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.

5 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

5 years of development experience with C++.

Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, and/or cross-business projects.

Experience in Rust, in the open source community.

Experience architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.

About the job

The Fuchsia Tools team delivers a robust, scalable tooling platform for all Fuchsia developers. Specifically, we are responsible for FFX (i.e., Fuchsia’s primary host-side CLI tool which runs on Linux and macOS), Fuchsia’s on-device developer services, and their communication protocols. These tools are used across Google as well as in Fuchsia’s emerging open-source community. Our mission is to enable and delight Fuchsia developers with all aspects of Fuchsia development.

As a Staff Software Engineer serving as the team’s Technical Lead, you will manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started and as a technical lead, you will guide the way.

Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $183,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

Architect a Rust-based platform for an ecosystem of developer tools, runtimes, and services to interact with Fuchsia devices.

Translate (and help to expand) product vision into engineering objectives, and be accountable for delivering them.

Provide technical guidance, judgment, and mentoring to a team of strong engineers, helping them grow personally and professionally.

Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Maintain strong partnerships (including our 90+ contributors) and work closely with customers to ensure our tools fit well with their ecosystems.

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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.