Engineering & Design

Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions.

Engineering & Design

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, software, hardware, network, test and site reliability engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers and designers are changing the world one technological advance after another.

  • Software Engineering

    Develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions interact.

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  • Hardware Engineering

    Design and build the systems at the heart of one of the world’s largest computing infrastructures.

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  • Network Engineering

    Build infrastructure that scales beyond Google’s ambitions.

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  • User Experience & Design

    Create intuitive, simple, and beautiful designs that delight our users.

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  • Technical Infrastructure

    Make Google's services fast and reliable for billions of users.

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Life at Google in Engineering & Design

Do Cool Things That Matter

Do Cool Things That Matter

Googlers solve complex problems everyday in the name of our core mission to organize the ...

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Meet Reto Strobl, an engineering manager at Google Zurich

Meet Reto Strobl, an engineering manager at Google Zurich

We sat down with Reto Strobl, an engineering manager at Google Zurich, about how he ...

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Going green for good

Going green for good

We want people to feel good about using Google products. One way we try to ...

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Meet Andrew Swerdlow, a privacy analysis engineer

Meet Andrew Swerdlow, a privacy analysis engineer

Which is tougher: innovating on the bleeding edge of privacy technology or summiting the highest ...

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Why I'm leaving Harvard

Why I'm leaving Harvard

When he left academia to join Google full time, Matt Welsh explained that the allure ...

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Google's switch to the next wave of networking

Google's switch to the next wave of networking

Urs Hölzle details our adoption of the new, open-source infrastructure technology OpenFlow in this article ...

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The front lines: Yvette and Sean on fighting the war on bugs

The front lines: Yvette and Sean on fighting the war on bugs

People depend on Google Maps every day to get them where they need to go. ...

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Speed of dreams

Speed of dreams

Astro Teller (yes, that is his real name) shares how Google bets big on the ...

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Google: Scale changes everything

Google: Scale changes everything

Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally ...

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Whoa, Google has designers

Whoa, Google has designers

Googler Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer, gave this presentation on our visual refresh during UX ...

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Site reliability engineers: the "world's most intense pit crew"

Site reliability engineers: the "world's most intense pit crew"

Site reliability engineer (SRE) Andrew Widdowson likens Google to a race car going 100mph - ...

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Search engineering at Google

Search engineering at Google

Hear from the engineers that work on the product that’s been there since our beginning: ...

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The Google Gospel of Speed

The Google Gospel of Speed

"Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature." So says Urs Hoelzle, head of our ...

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Google web grows in city

Google web grows in city

"Many of the most talented and creative engineers and scientists in our field of computer ...

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