Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, RankEmbed — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development with C++ or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Work on RankEmbed’s serving and indexing infrastructure that is currently serving millions of QPS at a low latency -- identify bottlenecks and deploy robust solutions.
- Design, implement and execute a robust rollout plan for the multiple components involved in RankEmbed’s model refreshes.
- 2 years of experience with software development with C++ or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
Main responsibilities
- Work on RankEmbed’s serving and indexing infrastructure that is currently serving millions of QPS at a low latency -- identify bottlenecks and deploy robust solutions.
- Design, implement and execute a robust rollout plan for the multiple components involved in RankEmbed’s model refreshes.
- Collaborate with SREs and Core on designing and implementing best practices to improve the existing ML infrastructure.
- Work with clients inside and outside of Search to understand their requirements and define their deployment strategy.
- Evaluate and analyze the performance of the various infrastructure components to identify their limitations and avenues for improvement.
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software development with C++ or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Additional details
- Experience debugging bottlenecks using profiling toolsand optimizing performance.
Notes and original content
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