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Senior Software Engineer – Infra Spanner

Senior Software Engineer – Infra Spanner

CompanyGoogle
LocationSunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary$166000 – $244000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in C++.
  • 3 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
  • Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.

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.

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.
  • Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).