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Working alongside Commodity Managers and hardware specialists, you will determine technical specifications to maximize multi-sourcing, ensuring all components fit together seamlessly to keep systems operating smoothly for end users.\nBehind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. 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