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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud Block Storage - **Company:** Google LLC - **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $174,000.0 - $252,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Push Technology, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Google Cloud, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Search Engines, Block Storage, Programming Languages - **Published:** August 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/8021C33AEA16499CB153E628067CDCBD/job/ ## About the Role Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. * 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. * 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. * 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture., * Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. * Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure forscalable, high performance, distributed systems. * Experience with distributed storage systems. * Experience designing and deploying innovative new features within Kubernetes. ## Description 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., * Design, develop, and integrate core file and block storage features and management within the GDCH ecosystem. * Define, measure, and optimize storage performance to meet stringent input/output operations per second (IOPS), throughput, and latency requirements. Align with Google Cloud best practices, using tools like fio for comprehensive benchmarking and performance characterization. * Build and enhance observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation capabilities to ensure the high availability and smooth operation of file and block storage components. * Address and resolve complex issues through our root-cause/remediation process, including identifying and closing test gaps with unit, integration, and chaos testing. ## Related Videos - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Bitcoin- Ledger vs Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/23-bitcoin-ledger-vs-blockchain) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Your Kubernetes Node Is Not a Server: Rethinking the OS Layer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100315-your-kubernetes-node-is-not-a-server-rethinking-the-os-layer) - [A Computer Is All You Need](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100142-a-computer-is-all-you-need) - [Cloud Run- the rise of serverless and containerization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/106-cloud-run-the-rise-of-serverless-and-containerization) ## Related Articles - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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