Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Spanner Platform

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages.

• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed

systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or

hardware architecture.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,

and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

• Experience with: Distributed Systems, Backend.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with solving problems at scale.
• Experience with database core concepts, consistency, and isolation.

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.

As a part of Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's database service at industry-leading

scale and reliability and one of the largest distributed systems in the world.

You will work with a globally distributed relational database service that is

widely used by most of Google’s products and services. Cloud Spanner is the

cloud native offering of Spanner on Google Cloud Platform, is a fully managed

relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999%

availability.

As a part of the service health team, your mission is to provide our customers

with a predictable and robust experience at an unmatched scale, no matter the

size or shape of their workload. Scale, isolation and resiliency are the three

pillars within the team that we focus on.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its

business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage

Google’s 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:

• Make the impact to our biggest Cloud customers with ambiguous challenges to

solve at scale.

• Design and develop features to support future scale, increase resiliency and

isolation.

• Identify future bottlenecks through monitoring, experimenting and other

signals and propose solutions.

• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and other partner teams

to drive holistic solutions, often spanning multiple quarters and requiring

cross-team influence and excellent communication skills.

• Lead architectural changes in a massively distributed system.