Software Engineer, Photos Core Data and Server

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products handle information at massive scale. We are looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from various areas including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile.

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 engineers who are versatile, display leadership qualities, and are enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack.

Across Google One and our media storage ecosystem, our goal is to deliver a holistic consumer cloud offering that powers helpful and magical experiences for members. We aim to be the trusted home where individuals preserve personal memories, enriching that context with deep understanding to enable delightful, intelligent interactions anywhere. The Core Data and Server organization empowers feature crews to ship scalable, adaptive capabilities by modernizing backend foundations, creating governance frameworks, optimizing latency, and crafting programmatic interfaces.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought-after products at Google and is looking for Software Engineers for client-side (web and mobile), server-side (search, storage, serving), and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision). We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Key Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Contribute to developing new infrastructure and improving existing infrastructure to support Photos core services and product teams.
• Build new APIs, write new business logic, and change our databases to support new features in Google Photos.
• Make infrastructure changes to improve the efficiency and scale of our systems.
• Work heavily with artificial intelligence tools, agents, and systems designed to automate, accelerate, and assist in writing, testing, and deploying code.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Software development
• Large-scale infrastructure
• Distributed systems
• Networks
• Compute technologies
• Storage
• Hardware architecture
• Java
• Backend development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Data structures and algorithms.
• Coding skills with experience in Java and Backend.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
• Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.