Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner Analytics

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of programming experience in C++.
• 3 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale

infrastructure or distributed systems (storage, databases etc).

• Experience with cloud databases, performance optimization, and benchmarking.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• Experience designing and developing relational databases, database internals,

query processing and query optimization.

• Experience building transaction processing systems (OLTP) or larger scale

analytics (OLAP).

• Experience building data warehousing systems (e.g., Spark, BigQuery).
• Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software

test engineering.

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 combines the power and familiarity of relational databases with

horizontal scalability typical of non-relational stores. It is the first

scalable, enterprise grade, globally distributed, and strongly consistent

database service. The Spanner Analytics team's mission is to unify transactional

and analytical workloads to allow real-time insights and a serving of

operational and lakehouse data. We work closely with internal and external

customers to ensure analytic queries scale and perform on exabytes of data.

Key to success on the Spanner team are to be an effective collaborator and to

balance learning with continued progress on deliverables. You will learn about

Spanner's query engine and collaborate with experts in the areas of storage,

transaction processing, scheduling etc.

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 product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide

on the 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.