Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Google's Sunnyvale, CA team seeks a Software Engineer to help build large-scale data infrastructure and cloud storage components. You will work on critical projects, perform workload analysis, build prototypes, and run experiments to bring ideas to production.

The role emphasizes collaboration with researchers and data scientists, with opportunities to switch teams and tackle challenges across the full stack in Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• Experience with statistical analysis and analytics frameworks.
• Experience with testing, debugging, and deployment in C++ and Python.
• Experience with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of Google’s Infrastructure Storage System and how its components perform optimally using defined metrics, insightful statistics, and explanatory models.
• Characterize inefficient behaviors and irregular anomalies and identify the causes of such behaviors.
• Propose deployment efficiency improvements to the design architecture, system monitoring, resource provisioning, and production operations policies.
• Engage in research with leading academic institutions and industrial vendors and thus provide guidance to storage engineering functions.

Skills

C++

Python

Distributed systems

Statistical analysis

Testing & debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD

Job description

Google's Sunnyvale, CA team seeks a Software Engineer to help build large-scale data infrastructure and cloud storage components. You will work on critical projects, perform workload analysis, build prototypes, and run experiments to bring ideas to production.

The role emphasizes collaboration with researchers and data scientists, with opportunities to switch teams and tackle challenges across the full stack in Google Cloud.