Senior Distributed Systems Engineer – Spanner Infra

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

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a software engineer to join the Spanner team in Sunnyvale. You will work on distributed storage systems, contribute code, and help scale services for billions of users.

You will collaborate with product and customer teams to deliver differentiating features and help diagnose performance and reliability challenges across a global, high-availability database platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 2 years of software development experience in C++, or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• Experience with designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.

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 (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• 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.

Skills

C++ development

Distributed systems

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

2 years of software development with C++ or 1 year with advanced degree

Distributed databases/storage systems experience

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a software engineer to join the Spanner team in Sunnyvale. You will work on distributed storage systems, contribute code, and help scale services for billions of users.

You will collaborate with product and customer teams to deliver differentiating features and help diagnose performance and reliability challenges across a global, high-availability database platform.