Cloud Storage Engineer III: Metadata & Distributed Systems

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud Storage is seeking a Software Engineer III in Sunnyvale, CA to advance metadata infrastructure for Blobstore, a planet-scale storage system powering products like YouTube and Photos.

The role emphasizes writing production-grade C++ code, tackling large distributed systems challenges, and mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment with cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with algorithms.

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++

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Google Cloud Storage is seeking a Software Engineer III in Sunnyvale, CA to advance metadata infrastructure for Blobstore, a planet-scale storage system powering products like YouTube and Photos.

The role emphasizes writing production-grade C++ code, tackling large distributed systems challenges, and mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment with cross-team collaboration.