Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems & Backend

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

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Job summary

Google's Sunnyvale office is seeking software engineers to help build scalable systems across storage, compute, and databases. You will work on large-scale distributed services with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows and evolves.

In this role you will contribute to backend design, performance analysis, and high-availability architectures while collaborating across cross-functional teams. The position emphasizes hands-on coding and rigorous quality practices, with a competitive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++.
• 2 years of experience with concurrent programming (e.g., multi-threading, asynchronous processing) or analyzing and optimizing software performance.
• 2 years of experience architecting and developing large-scale distributed systems (e.g., compute, storage, or databases).

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 and its impact.

Skills

C++ development

Concurrent programming

Distributed systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Google's Sunnyvale office is seeking software engineers to help build scalable systems across storage, compute, and databases. You will work on large-scale distributed services with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows and evolves.

In this role you will contribute to backend design, performance analysis, and high-availability architectures while collaborating across cross-functional teams. The position emphasizes hands-on coding and rigorous quality practices, with a competitive