Software Engineering III, Shopping Graph

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience with C++ coding language.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Machine Learning.
• Experience working with Structured Query Language.
• Experience with data mining.
• Experience in large scale distributed data processing.

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.

In this role, you will work on key infrastructure components, contributing to the comprehensiveness and quality of the Buyable Corpus, also known externally as the Shopping Graph. You will collaborate with teams to leverage Machine Learning (ML) approaches to scale our data extraction systems and help create a Web Extractions Platform- a well-defined tool used by all Shopping teams

You will work on the back-end of 'Auto-feeds for Everyone,' an externally visible, merchant-facing automated feed management solution used by hundreds of thousands of merchants and processing billions of offers daily.People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today's digital world.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code for our Shopping Graph.
• Working on the Shopping Graph project provides a wide range of exciting engineering tests, spanning across data quality and infrastructure areas.
• Develop systems and solutions with a focus on Data mining, Experiments, Logging, Metrics and the associated infrastructure.
• Optimize the large scale data processing infrastructure: improve costs/latency of the offer discovery and data processing.