Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Infra Spanner

About the role

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Pay

$174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full-time