Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Data Layer Architecture

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Ads Data Layer (ADL) Infrastructure team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and evolve the next generation of distributed storage, caching, and data processing across Google Ads.

You will lead a multi-year re-architecture of the core database stack to ensure operational resilience and scalable performance, mentor engineers, and drive resource governance using LLM-based orchestration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, or Go.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or database architecture.
• 1 year of experience with query optimization, distributed caching layers, data replication, or memory/resource efficiency measurement tools.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development codein Java, C++, Python, or Go to design and implement efficient, next-generation distributed caching and database architectures.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologiesfor global Ads data storage and scaling systems.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practicesregarding testing, maintainability, and compute/memory resource efficiency.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedbackto share resource governance standards.
• 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

Java

C++

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Google's Ads Data Layer (ADL) Infrastructure team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and evolve the next generation of distributed storage, caching, and data processing across Google Ads.

You will lead a multi-year re-architecture of the core database stack to ensure operational resilience and scalable performance, mentor engineers, and drive resource governance using LLM-based orchestration.