Software Engineer II, Notifications Quality

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of experience implementing core ML concepts.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with data analysis (e.g., SQL, colab) and machine learning.
  
  

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 Notifications Quality team improves users' experience with notifications sent through Google Notification platforms (go/GaNT, go/GaNT-GNP).

Google products use notifications to reach out to users to promote actions and to increase engagement. While notifications can be useful or delightful for users, they could also be distracting, might not always be relevant and may appear too often. As a result, some users ignore notifications while others opt-out or even stop using the product. Our team aims to maximize the value and reduce the cost of notifications, for end-users and for Google.

We help first-party teams (collaborators) throughout Google via online tools, datasets and dashboards, to track their notifications traffic, measure quality and improve their users' experience with notifications.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Build infrastructure to optimize/experiment with notifications (content, timing, frequency, etc.). Work with collaborators to define and scope experiments over slices of notification traffic.
• Train, evaluate and iterate on a series of models offline. Run and evaluate experiments and ultimately bring models to launch.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .