Senior Infra Spanner Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring software engineers to build the next-generation technologies that enable billions of users to connect, explore, and interact with information at scale. You will work on Spanner and related storage services, contributing to large-scale feature development and integration across the broader Google ecosystem.

Role emphasizes building scalable, reliable systems with strong knowledge of distributed computing, databases, and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++, or 3 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 5 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
• Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

Responsibilities

• Write and test 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++ programming

Distributed systems

Performance analysis

Debugging

Multithreading

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google is hiring software engineers to build the next-generation technologies that enable billions of users to connect, explore, and interact with information at scale. You will work on Spanner and related storage services, contributing to large-scale feature development and integration across the broader Google ecosystem.

Role emphasizes building scalable, reliable systems with strong knowledge of distributed computing, databases, and performance optimization.