Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Spanner Analytics

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers for the Spanner Analytics team to help unify transactional and analytic workloads at massive scale. The role involves contributing to scalable, globally distributed databases and collaborating with internal and external customers.

US-based employees can expect a total compensation package including equity and a 15% bonus target, with comprehensive health, retirement, and family benefits. This is a foundational Google engineering opportunity in Kirkland, WA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of C++ programming experience.
• 3 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems (storage, databases etc).
• Experience with cloud databases, performance optimization, and benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide on the 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 design

Cloud databases

Performance optimization

Benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Spark

BigQuery

SQL databases

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of programming experience in C++.
• 3 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems (storage, databases etc).
• Experience with cloud databases, performance optimization, and benchmarking.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• Experience designing and developing relational databases, database internals, query processing and query optimization.
• Experience building transaction processing systems (OLTP) or larger scale analytics (OLAP).
• Experience building data warehousing systems (e.g., Spark, BigQuery).
• Experience in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. Spanner combines the power and familiarity of relational databases with horizontal scalability typical of non-relational stores. It is the first scalable, enterprise grade, globally distributed, and strongly consistent database service. The Spanner Analytics team's mission is to unify transactional and analytical workloads to allow real-time insights and a serving of operational and lakehouse data. We work closely with internal and external customers to ensure analytic queries scale and perform on exabytes of data. Key to success on the Spanner team are to be an effective collaborator and to balance learning with continued progress on deliverables. You will learn about Spanner's query engine and collaborate with experts in the areas of storage, transaction processing, scheduling etc. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide on the 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .