Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in one or more languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar.
Experience managing internal or client-facing projects, troubleshooting clients technical issues, and working with engineering teams, sales, services, and customers.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in developing scalable applications using Java, Python, or similar including data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Experience refactoring legacy monolithic applications to micro-services, APIs, or server-less models.
Experience with unit or automated testing tools.
Experience with scalable networking technologies (e.g., Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (e.g., REST APIs, web security mechanisms).
Experience in open source server software (e.g., NGINX, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch).
Knowledge of Developer Operations practices, including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
About the job
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.
As a Cloud Application Development Engineer, you will work with customers to assess existing Enterprise applications in anticipation of a cloud migration by providing application design, assessing and classifying applications and application platforms, and proposing rewrite approaches to facilitate deployment to cloud native products like Google Kubernetes Engine. You will work with customers on legacy application re-design and implementation including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. Additionally, you will work with Product Management and Product Engineering to build products. In this role, you will support customer application assessment and implementation of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, application migration, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more.
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
Maintain development practices (e.g., technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution) writing modular and self-sustaining code, with repeatable quality and predictability.
Ensure code is written and tested using defined coding and testing standards and frameworks.
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Travel up to 30% of the time depending on region as needed.
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.
