Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Infra Spanner

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++.
• 5 years of experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization

for distributed or low-level systems.

• 5 years of experience in one or more of the following: architecting or

developing distributed systems or concurrency, multi-threading,

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 designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
• Understanding of database concepts such as high-availability and disaster

recovery.

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 is a globally-replicated, scalable SQL-aware database that provides

consistency guarantees and high availability and is a key asset of Google’s

product portfolio of storage services.

In this role, you will build knowledge of and contribute to many cross-cutting

technologies throughout Spanner's stack, to name a few, co-processors, group

management, range-map, indexing, query engines, and much more. You will need to

have 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: $174000 - $252000 (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.