Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Infra Spanner

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in C++, or 1 year of experience with an

advanced degree in an industry setting.

• 2 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or

storage systems.

• Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for

distributed or low-level systems.

• Experience with concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with 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 JOB:

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.

Spanner Batch Team empowers customers to perform large-scale data processing

against their Spanner databases efficiently, reliably, and without impacting

live transactional workloads. Key initiatives include enhancing efficiency of

writes by developing improved mechanisms for read-modify-write operations,

creating more performant bulk data loading pathways(essential for emerging AI/ML

workloads), introducing advanced mutation semantics and data life-cycle

management features. These efforts collectively aim to strenthen Spanner as a

comprehensive platform for both online transactional systems and offline

large-scale data processing.

We are looking for Software Engineers with an interest and significant systems

experience to solve critical problems related to Spanner availability and

scale.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: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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.