Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner

Google LLC
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
5 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$174,000.0 - $252,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Bioinformatics C++ (Programming Language) Code Review Computer Programming Databases Software Debugging Disaster Recovery Distributed Data Store Distributed Systems Systems Development Life Cycle Memory Leaks Multithreading
+5 more
System Availability Concurrency Database Performance Information Technology Transactional Database

Job description

  • Write and test product or system development code.
  • Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues.

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Requirements

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 programming in C++.
  • Experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
  • Experience with concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.
  • Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Experience with database in High Availability/Disaster Recovery.
  • Understanding of database internals and diagnosing of issues such as memory leaks, data corruption, database performance and tuning.
  • Experience with transactional database systems.
  • Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).

About the company

Google Cloud’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the technical goal and execution of the product offering. You will interact with product teams and customers and help deliver a differentiated feature for Cloud Spanner that unlock a market opportunity for users who are looking at Spanner for their large, global deployments.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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