Software Engineer, Google Fonts

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 3 years of experience in software system architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• Experience in creating security tools, with the understanding of underlying programming languages (e.g., Python, C#, C/C++, Rust, Nim or similar).
  

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.

In this role, you will develop tools and libraries, primarily open source, in support of Google Fonts objectives around text stack memory safety and AI. You will help us create and land a memory safe text stack for use across Google, with particular focus on landing in Chrome and Android. You will help wire Rust into our Java servers to support 1P and 3P users of fonts.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Help Google Fonts land AI powered typesetting.
• Help Google Fonts consolidate on Rust or tools and libraries.
• Contribute to open source tools and libraries, and help cultivate the community around them.
• Gain expertise in the font format, help Google teams leverage fonts, help improve the font standard and related tools and libraries for text processing.