Cloud Storage Engineer – Distributed Systems

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Cloud Storage team in Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer to advance planet-scale distributed storage systems. You will design, build, and operate infrastructure handling exabytes of data and trillions of objects, impacting Google's services.

The role emphasizes performance, scalability, and reliability across a large distributed environment. Applicants should have strong C++ experience, distributed systems knowledge, and a background in cloud platforms or SaaS products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++.
• 2 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or storage architecture.
• Experience developing solutions on Cloud Computing platforms or building SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Write 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 and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

C++ development

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms / SaaS

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related fields

Job description

Google's Cloud Storage team in Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer to advance planet-scale distributed storage systems. You will design, build, and operate infrastructure handling exabytes of data and trillions of objects, impacting Google's services.

The role emphasizes performance, scalability, and reliability across a large distributed environment. Applicants should have strong C++ experience, distributed systems knowledge, and a background in cloud platforms or SaaS products.