Senior Software Engineer, Filesystem, Google Pixel

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in programming with C.
  
• Experience in software development with Linux Kernel.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to find problems and address them quickly with reasonable approaches.
  
• Excellent teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate with various teams.
  

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, 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for managing the areas across all Pixel phone products. You will communicate with multiple storage vendors and drive JEDEC/T10 standards to make the best choice of Universal Flash Storage (UFS) parts every year per Pixel product. You will work with diverse Android teams to make the entire Android more performant and healthy.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google's software and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and improve Android system performance from the entire IO stack perspective.
• Control IOs to mitigate performance, power, or stability problems on flash storages.
• Contribute code changes in Android framework and to Pixel.
• Maintain kernel patches across various kernel branches such as mainline, AOSP, Pixel, and SoC.
• Write and Upstream patches for file systems or IO subsystems. Explore new storage technology and lead the storage industry.