Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, Polymer or React) and CSS pre-processing frameworks (e.g., Sass or Less).
• Experience with Front-End languages (e.g., JavaScript or TypeScript).
• Experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 2 years of experience in C++.
• Experience with the internals of JavaScript engines such as V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, or Java runtime.
• Experience with Node API and working with add-ons.
• Understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
• Understanding of the web and technologies such as web browsers, HTTP, JavaScript and WebAssembly.

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.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Google Node.js ecosystem.
  
• Upstream patches to Node.js.
• Author and review Continuation Local storage.
• Contribute to shared team responsibilities.
• Help Google Web developers build products using our tooling.