Senior Software Engineer, Infra Spanner

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++, or 3 year of experience with an

advanced degree in an industry setting.

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

strong consistency guarantees and is a key asset of Google’s product portfolio

of storage services.

In this role you will be responsible for building critical features and enhance

their scalability, reliability, and availability. You will have opportunities to

work with a broad range of areas in the Data Protection domain. You will build

deep knowledge of and contribute to many crosscutting technologies throughout

Spanner's stack. In this role, you will be working on large-scale feature

development and integrating with other products in the wider Spanner ecosystem.

We are seeking software engineers to extend and build out the core components of

Infra Spanner so that they meet the growing needs of our most demanding

customers at Google.

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.