Software Engineer, Data Acquisition

Google is seeking a Software Engineer, Data Acquisition in San Jose, CA to build data acquisition pipelines and ML-ready training data.

Location: San Jose, CA (onsite)

Salary: USD 147,000 - 211,000 per year

Experience: 2 years

Education: Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Enhance the crawl scheduling infrastructure to improve data collection efficiency and timeliness.
• Develop signals that reveal web and customer data interests to support intelligent crawl decisions and targeted data collection.
• Improve the quality and relevance of acquired data while mitigating low-quality content such as spam.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 2 years of coding experience in C++ and Python.
• 2 years of experience with algorithms.
• 2 years of experience with distributed processing.
• 2 years of experience with Flume.

Technologies

• C++
• Python
• Flume

About the Job

Google's software engineers develop the next generation of technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products handle information at massive scale and extend beyond web search. We seek engineers who bring fresh ideas from fields such as information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.