- Zürich, ZH
- Full-Time
- <48 Hours
Software Engineer II, Backends and Infrastructure, Cloud.
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Software Engineer II, Backends and Infrastructure, Cloud: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a software engineer working on backends and infrastructure for Google Cloud and Google Workspace products.
- The Person:The person will design, build, and maintain reliable, secure, scalable infrastructure in a Java codebase and work with product managers, SREs, data scientists, and partner engineering teams.
- Requirements:The role requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, 1 year of software development experience, 1 year of data structures and algorithms experience, and experience in Java, C++, and Python.
About the role
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 data structures and algorithms.
Preferred qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Experience in one or more programming languages, including Java, C++, and Python.
- Experience in software development.
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 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:
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, secure, scalable infrastructure within our Java codebase, taking new ideas from initial prototype to production-grade features.
- Partner closely with product managers, SREs, data scientists and partner engineering teams across Google Calendar and the broader Google Workspace (Gmail, Chat, Meet) ecosystem to deliver seamless user experiences.
- Advocate a culture of engineering excellence and high quality standards, ensuring all infrastructure we are responsible for is resilient, performant, and safe.

