Software Engineer, Education Analytics

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.

The Education Analytics team builds data solutions for education leaders and teachers, delivering impactful, high-level insights. Education analytics is complex and technically challenging, leaders need secure, cost-effective insights from scattered, disparate data.

Our team enables educators to understand and act on their data, improving learning outcomes worldwide while driving new business.

In this role, you will help bring our goal to life. Beyond our roadmap, you will be empowered to execute your own ideas to drive key metrics like adoption and engagement.

Google plays an important role in education around the world - with hundreds of millions of students using Google Classroom, Google Workspace, Chromebooks, YouTube, and more. In addition to powering these core products, we're experimenting with new tools to advance the boundaries of how education leaders understand and guide their schools, staff, and students.

For more information, see the Google for Education site .

Responsibilities

• Design and build new software systems spanning data processing, infrastructure, deployment, and development.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in user research, design, and product to understand educators' needs, and to translate them into the right technical decisions and systems.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Work with partner engineering teams across Learning and Education and elsewhere in Google to ingest, analyze, and surface key sources of education data into the Analytics platform.
• Contribute to a team culture, to improve and sustain our culture and operations, making Google a better place to work.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• Experience developing web-based applications.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Work experience with general purpose languages such Java, have experience scaling and productionizing data processing pipelines.
• Understanding of how to effectively work within and across team or sub-teams boundaries, in particular with other shared infrastructure teams.
• Be capable of working with our customers and partners to help deliver on our commitments.