Senior Backend Engineer - Database Internals & Storage

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

Job summary

Google's AlloyDB team in Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer to design and implement high-performance C++ components for the database kernel, including storage engines, indexing, and transaction logging.

You will build distributed consensus and replication mechanisms, integrate PostgreSQL features into a cloud-native storage engine, and optimize core paths for low latency and high concurrency across large-scale deployments.

Qualifications

• 2 years of C/C++ software development experience.
• 2 years designing backend infra, distributed systems, or large-scale storage.
• Experience with concurrent/multithreaded systems and database internals.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance C++ components for the AlloyDB kernel.
• Build consensus and replication for data consistency and failover resilience.
• Integrate PostgreSQL features into a cloud-native storage engine.
• Profile and optimize core database paths for latency and concurrency.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve architectural and performance bottlenecks.

Skills

C/C++

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Concurrent programming

Database internals

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

RocksDB

Job description

Google's AlloyDB team in Sunnyvale seeks a software engineer to design and implement high-performance C++ components for the database kernel, including storage engines, indexing, and transaction logging.

You will build distributed consensus and replication mechanisms, integrate PostgreSQL features into a cloud-native storage engine, and optimize core paths for low latency and high concurrency across large-scale deployments.