Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Candidates will typically have 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

• Experience with the design and implementation of distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-native application development using open source building blocks such as Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kafka, Cassandra, Kong, etc.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or similar.

• Experience with public cloud, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience with VMWare in an enterprise environment.

• Knowledge of private and public cloud design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, global infrastructure, distributed systems, load balancing, and networking.

• Excellent technical leadership, project management, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

The Google Cloud VMware Engine enables customers running on-premises VMware workloads to seamlessly migrate to Google Cloud without having to re-architect or refactor their applications. This allows them to leverage the value of their existing VMware investments while maintaining operational continuity and avoiding data center management, hardware refreshes, and procurement cycles.

In this role, you will mainly focus on control plane development using Google tools and standards with the aim of eventual merging the CloudSimple stack with internal Cloud Bare Metal efforts.

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.

• Design and build large-scale distributed systems.

• Lead the implementation and delivery of projects and programs.

• Provide technical leadership, acumen, and guidance to local teams and peer teams across the product locations.

• Own tech solutions, roadmap, and decisions in the Control Plane layer.

• Represent Control Plane layer in the discussion with peer domains.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.