Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Spanner - Distributed Systems

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

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Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner to design and optimize distributed storage systems at scale. You will work on core Spanner features, collaborating with product teams to deliver high-availability solutions for global deployments.

This role emphasizes ownership, code quality, and cross-team collaboration within Google Cloud. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 5+ years in C++, and strong knowledge of distributed

Qualifications

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

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++

Distributed databases

Concurrency

Performance analysis

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's/PhD preferred

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner to design and optimize distributed storage systems at scale. You will work on core Spanner features, collaborating with product teams to deliver high-availability solutions for global deployments.

This role emphasizes ownership, code quality, and cross-team collaboration within Google Cloud. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 5+ years in C++, and strong knowledge of distributed