Senior Cloud Storage Engineer - Blobstore Metadata

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

Job summary

Google’s Cloud Storage team manages Blobstore, a planet-scale distributed storage system powering YouTube, Photos, Workspace, and more. We seek engineers to develop and maintain metadata infrastructure for this scale, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as Google grows.

In this role, you will contribute to metadata infrastructure powering Google’s massive storage system. Google Cloud accelerates digital transformation with enterprise-grade solutions and global reach.

Qualifications

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

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Software development experience

Infrastructure development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related fields

Job description

Google’s Cloud Storage team manages Blobstore, a planet-scale distributed storage system powering YouTube, Photos, Workspace, and more. We seek engineers to develop and maintain metadata infrastructure for this scale, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as Google grows.

In this role, you will contribute to metadata infrastructure powering Google’s massive storage system. Google Cloud accelerates digital transformation with enterprise-grade solutions and global reach.