Technical Lead - C++ (with Java/Kotlin)

C++ Technical Lead (With Java/Kotlin) Mountain View, CA - Hybrid 6-months Contract role Job Description: Our mission is to enforce policy compliance of user activity data, especially those stored in logs. We enable policy stakeholders (e.g., policy owners, feature developers, and logs consumers) to quickly achieve compliance for data in a safe, standard, and consistent manner. Must Have: • Strong experience in C++ within the last 3 years or currently, with additional experience in Java or Kotlin. Core Requirements • Strong experience with C++ and Java or Kotlin. • Prior experience in C++ within the last 3 years. • Experience building servers in large-scale distributed systems. • Strong backend development and system design experience. • Experience working with server frameworks and dependency injection concepts. • Understanding data pipelines, logging systems, and search server infrastructure. Description: As a Software Engineer, you have influence well beyond yourself. You often own all aspects of your immediate area of software engineering work. You are distinguished by your ability to self-direct your technical contributions as well as plan and scope for a project. You act as a point of contact for your cross-functional partners. Faced with a problem, you will scope it, research possible solutions and technologies, and recommend a solution that includes both the short-term and long-term needs. Responsibilities include: • Write product or system development code without supervision, conduct testing beyond unit testing (e.g. integration, performance, stress, security, load, fuzz), design code to allow for easy testing and write test case descriptions. Review other engineers’ code and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency). • Identify critical components and tech debt with high carrying costs. Implement or guide remedies to improve long-term maintainability, modifiability, etc. Managers also oversee their team's coding, testing, and reviewing. • Take ownership of rolling out a project to completion, contributing to qualification, end-user documentation, production deployment/monitoring, process automation, and customer support as needed. • Set up or improve test/monitoring/survey infrastructure, systems or practices. Consider engineering excellence (e.g., code health, low toil, system maintainability and scalability over time). 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. Managers ensure their teams follow the above to drive product excellence. • Design systems within the scope of their area. Clarify problems to understand gaps, break down problems into solvable parts and assess trade-offs to ensure coherent design, participate in or drive design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. Managers also oversee and guide their teams in systems design. For those with employee reports, the amount of direct, technical contributions will be balanced against the amount of management responsibility required in the role. • Set and achieve business goals Deliver business impact for us by setting, communicating, and achieving team priorities that support organizational goals. Align with partners and make key decisions as needed to achieve team objectives. • Prioritize work and manage resources Ensure appropriate metrics, roles, and people are in place to meet organizational goals. Make prioritization decisions, equitably allocate work, and manage resources to deliver business impact for us. drive through change to deliver results Demonstrate good judgment, make and communicate adjustments, and remove obstacles to ensure goals can be met during times of change. • Encourage innovation and thoughtful risk taking to deliver business impact for us. • Support and uphold inclusive team norms Ensure that team norms create belonging, psychological safety, and respect. Facilitate collaboration and open communication to help teams achieve results together. • Encourage wellbeing Check in with each employee and provide appropriate resources to support wellbeing as needed. Set the team up for sustained high performance by actively reprioritizing or redistributing work as demands on the team change. • Role model our values Make decisions and support activities that align with our values, policies, and practices. Encourage team members to positively contribute and recognize them for doing so. Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in: • Test engineering • Team Management • Data structures and algorithms • Architecture knowledge • Programming • SWE system design • Code and system health • Simplification • Conflict resolution • Data analysis and synthesis • Systems thinking • Code comprehension • Debugging, diagnosis and resolution Thanks, Nandit