Software Engineer Ii, Google Arts And Culture in England

Location: London, UK

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and deliver high-quality work.
• Ability to self-direct individual contributions.
• Ability to scope problems and implement solutions.

About the job

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.

Google Arts and Culture was launched to support digital innovation in cultural access and preservation around the world. The team's key effort is to build a platform for institutions to bring their content online in a way that is easily accessible to broad audiences. We combine tools and services designed to help institutions digitize existing materials in physical collections then store and share them online, creating new user experiences and bringing our expertise in new technologies and storytelling. This role supports creative coders and artists in residence, ensuring the stability, security, and launch readiness of public-facing experiments utilizing external models like Gemini and internal models. This is a changing role with a varied set of demands, connecting the external world and the internal process.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• 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 or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Prepare experiments for launch via configuration management.
• Implement and maintain endpoints to proxy internal GenAI services.
• Help prevent and address security vulnerabilities, assist in implementing mitigation measures.
• Rebuild and redeploy existing experiments, update them to new runtimes, APIs, ML models etc.

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