Senior Cloud Storage Engineer, Distributed Block Storage

Google; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus target

Job summary

Google Cambridge is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Google Distributed Cloud Block Storage team. You will design and implement storage features and systems across GDCH, with emphasis on performance and reliability in a multi-environment deployment.

You will work on scalable infrastructure, influence architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while advancing cutting-edge distributed storage technologies at Google.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year in software design/architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or storage/hardware architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate core file and block storage features in the GDCH ecosystem.
• Define, measure, and optimize storage performance for IOPS, throughput, and latency.
• Build observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation capabilities.
• Address complex issues through root-cause/remediation and testing gaps.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Kubernetes

Distributed storage

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google Cambridge is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Google Distributed Cloud Block Storage team. You will design and implement storage features and systems across GDCH, with emphasis on performance and reliability in a multi-environment deployment.

You will work on scalable infrastructure, influence architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while advancing cutting-edge distributed storage technologies at Google.