Software Engineer

Key Details

• Location: Zurich

• Capacity: Full-time

• Duration: Permanent position (Festanstellung)

Software Engineer at Google

As a Software Engineer, you will make significant, independent technical contributions to our core products. You are responsible for delivering end-to-end tasks that contribute to larger project goals with minimal guidance. You are a self-starter who independently plans and prioritizes your workflow, identifies technical gaps in requirements, and develops robust solutions to fix them.

Your Responsibilities

• Development & Coding: You write high-quality product and system code and conduct comprehensive testing-including integration, performance, stress, and security tests.

• Code Quality: You participate in code reviews for your peers to ensure best practices in style, accuracy, and efficiency. You also proactively identify and pay off technical debt to ensure long-term maintainability.

• Infrastructure & Operations: You contribute to production deployment, monitoring, and process automation. You play a key role in setting up or improving test and survey infrastructure.

• Issue Resolution: You triage system issues and debug complex problems by analyzing their impact on hardware, networks, and service quality.

• Documentation: You create and adapt end-user documentation and educational content based on product updates and user feedback to ensure our systems remain scalable and maintainable.

What You Bring to the Team

• Technical Proficiency: Strong expertise in programming, data structures, and algorithms.

• Testing & Health: Mastery of test engineering and a deep commitment to code and system health.

• Analytical Thinking: Excellent skills in debugging, diagnosis, data analysis, and synthesis.

• Architectural Knowledge: Proficiency in SWE system design and a solid understanding of systems thinking.

• Execution: The ability to comprehend complex codebases and design code that allows for easy testing and long-term modifiability.

Are you ready to take the next step in your engineering career and build scalable systems?