Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Overview We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team focused on Spanner at Google Cloud. This role involves driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members while leveraging deeper expertise in the relevant area.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with programming in C++.
• Experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.
• Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with databases in High Availability/Disaster Recovery.
• Understanding of database internals and diagnosing issues such as memory leaks, data corruption, database performance, and tuning.
• Experience with transactional database systems.
• Understanding of distributed computing concepts and consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).

About the Job Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from various fields, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile.

As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action, and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to tackle new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the technical goal and execution of the product offering. You will interact with product teams and customers and help deliver a differentiated feature for Cloud Spanner, unlocking market opportunities for users looking at Spanner for their large, global deployments.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions leveraging Google's cutting-edge technology and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in over 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Compensation Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174,000 - $252,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among 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 them by analyzing the sources of issues.

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Locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.