Software Engineer II, Google Arts and Culture

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

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 in 2011 to support digital innovation in cultural access and preservation around the world. 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.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

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.

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.