Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.
Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems design.
Experience programming in at least one: C++, Java, JavaScript

Preferred qualifications:

PhD in Computer Science.
Experience working closely with remote, and multi time-zone, teams.
Experience with developing consumer electronics products.
Game developer experience, shipped one/more title with Gameplay features and/or tooling.
Experience with any of the following: Embedded systems (embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, or similar), Audio/video codecs and streaming, Network programming, Machine learning, esp. relating to computer vision, image analysis models, Graphics pipelines, 3D graphics, and modern game engines, Real-time communication protocols

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

One of the hardest challenges in cloud gaming is to provide a consistent gameplay experience at scale. The Stadia Playability team continues to deliver on this promise with a mandate that encompasses industry-leading media aware rate adaptation and congestion control, innovative audio and video encoding, deep game integration adapted to the unique dynamic nature of Stadia's runtime, high quality and high performance streaming clients across Web, Living Room and Mobile, and finally cutting edge simulation and analytics to drive evolution of the core of Stadia's media streaming infrastructure.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. 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 millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, 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 Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and land critical parts of the Stadia Playability team's mandate with a focus on high quality for end-users and game developers.
Deliver game developer tools and APIs that enable external and internal developers to deliver the highest quality gameplay experience on Stadia.
Enable evolution of the fundamental streaming platform, improve its performance and predictability, and reduce friction for Stadia players and game developers.
Maintain collaborative relationships with scope-adjacent teams within Stadia and across Google as well as with Stadia partners.
Lead a small, high-performing team in Munich.