Google at Grace Hopper: Google Women Engineer Spotlights
October 1st, 2014 | Published in Google Student Blog
The annual Grace Hopper Conference is just one week away! Before the festivities officially kick off, we’re shining the spotlight on several Google Women Engineers (GWEs) who have been nominated by Googlers for the great work that they do and the contributions they have made as women in the tech industry.
Today, we’re featuring Jennifer Mace.
Can you share with us your role at Google?
I’m a Site Reliability Engineer at Google - that means I’m a software engineer who works closely with our serving systems as a whole, designing traffic flow and large-scale system interactions to keep Google’s services running. A typical day’s work could see me writing automation software in Python, working with developers to tweak their new feature’s scalability and reliability, or implementing monitoring and configuration changes across our system.
What do you enjoy most about being a woman in tech (or at Google specifically)?
I love being a GWE (a Google Woman Engineer) with my team because I love the eagle-eye view we have over our serving stack, and the freedom we have to design solutions to interesting problems. I also love my team in particular because they never make me feel unusual for being a technical woman, and they passionately support diversity in software - in fact, of my two-dozen teammates, seven will be joining me at Grace Hopper, and three of those seven are guys.
What are you looking forward to most at the Grace Hopper Conference?
Last year was my first Grace Hopper, and the strongest thing that inspired me about that amazing experience were all the brilliant women who refused to settle for being ‘comfortable’. Well, in the year since then, I’ve volunteered to lead a team, given technical talks around the US and the UK, and even wrote a novel! As we like to say at Google, I’m ‘uncomfortably excited’ to see what this year’s Grace Hopper will teach me. I hope I'll see you there!
To follow the fun at Grace Hopper and the lead-up to the celebration, check out Google Students on Google+ and Twitter using our #GoogleGHC14 hashtag. Stay tuned for more GWE spotlights here on our blog.
Today, we’re featuring Jennifer Mace.
Can you share with us your role at Google?
I’m a Site Reliability Engineer at Google - that means I’m a software engineer who works closely with our serving systems as a whole, designing traffic flow and large-scale system interactions to keep Google’s services running. A typical day’s work could see me writing automation software in Python, working with developers to tweak their new feature’s scalability and reliability, or implementing monitoring and configuration changes across our system.
What do you enjoy most about being a woman in tech (or at Google specifically)?
I love being a GWE (a Google Woman Engineer) with my team because I love the eagle-eye view we have over our serving stack, and the freedom we have to design solutions to interesting problems. I also love my team in particular because they never make me feel unusual for being a technical woman, and they passionately support diversity in software - in fact, of my two-dozen teammates, seven will be joining me at Grace Hopper, and three of those seven are guys.
What are you looking forward to most at the Grace Hopper Conference?
Last year was my first Grace Hopper, and the strongest thing that inspired me about that amazing experience were all the brilliant women who refused to settle for being ‘comfortable’. Well, in the year since then, I’ve volunteered to lead a team, given technical talks around the US and the UK, and even wrote a novel! As we like to say at Google, I’m ‘uncomfortably excited’ to see what this year’s Grace Hopper will teach me. I hope I'll see you there!
To follow the fun at Grace Hopper and the lead-up to the celebration, check out Google Students on Google+ and Twitter using our #GoogleGHC14 hashtag. Stay tuned for more GWE spotlights here on our blog.