Senior Cloud Storage Systems Engineer

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

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Mid-level software engineer to help build the Blobstore metadata infrastructure powering products like YouTube, Photos, Workspace and more. You will work on a planet-scale distributed storage system, contributing C++ code and collaborating across teams.

This role emphasizes mentoring junior engineers, participating in design reviews, and delivering robust services for scalable data storage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience with C++ and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among technologies.
• Review code to ensure best practices, quality, and testability.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content updates.
• Triage issues and debug across hardware, network, or service operations.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Large-scale infrastructure

Software development

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking a Mid-level software engineer to help build the Blobstore metadata infrastructure powering products like YouTube, Photos, Workspace and more. You will work on a planet-scale distributed storage system, contributing C++ code and collaborating across teams.

This role emphasizes mentoring junior engineers, participating in design reviews, and delivering robust services for scalable data storage.