What is Engineering Productivity?
We are a data-driven engineering discipline focused on optimizing the engineering process so that Google can deliver amazing experiences to our users, faster.
Our approach to building at scale
System analysis
With a system-level view and a user-centric view, we work hard to identify gaps and inefficiencies in our engineering process so that we can build solutions to improve engineering excellence and velocity.
Instrumentation
We believe that you can’t improve what you can’t measure. Google is a data-driven company and we are a data-driven discipline. We obsess over metrics and work hard to move them in the right direction.
Tools and infrastructure
We build critical tools and infrastructure to help Google engineers work more effectively and efficiently. This enables Google to ship excellent products, faster.
Focus on the user
We embed in product engineering teams where we champion polished products for Google’s users and fast, scalable engineering for our users, Google’s engineers.
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“It's humbling to see how Engineering Productivity has improved so many products and teams across Google through innovative infrastructure and engineering rigor. When you work in Engineering Productivity at Google, you can see your impact: better products, faster releases, and greater reliability for our users.”Asim Husain, VP Engineering, Mountain View
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“Engineering Productivity uses infrastructure, systems expertise, metrics and insights to build efficiency and effectiveness in our developer workflow. Building new products and features is one thing, making them scalable, reliable, and efficiently {developed, tested, released, monitored} is another story altogether — equally complicated, potentially more largely unexplored at Google's scale and complexity.”Michael Bachman, VP Engineering, Mountain View
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“EngProd is what happens when you ask a software engineer to solve 'Better, Easier, Faster: Pick All Three.'”Jennifer Bevan, Software Engineer, Sunnyvale
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“EngProd is of the Engineers, by the Engineers, and for the Engineers, bringing operational excellence to software development through innovative tools, infrastructure, and insights.”Chitra Venkatramani, Senior Engineering Director, New York City
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“At Google scale, “rare” failures happen frequently. Reasoning about the correctness and performance of a change is often harder than writing the feature itself. The open challenge for Engineering Productivity is to build systems that make this engineering process easier. ”Orla Hegarty, Senior Staff Test Engineer, Sunnyvale
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“We build release process automation and tooling to enable engineering teams to spend more time shipping new features instead of toiling with releases.”Sumitran Raghunathan, Release Engineering Manager, Sunnyvale
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“You are fundamentally responsible for making the machines do the work of scaling with quality, velocity, and excellence.”Anantha Keesara, Test Engineering Manager, Mountain View
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“One of the benefits of working on internal infrastructure and tools is being able to talk to grateful engineers after we've improved the engineering process for them. It's pretty awesome to sit with the users of our software!”Dave Chen, Engineering Director, Mountain View
We’re looking for world-class engineers that bring a quantitative mindset, execution velocity, leadership skills, and a passion to change the way engineering is done at Google and beyond.
Google strives to cultivate an inclusive workplace. We believe diversity of perspectives and ideas leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.
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