Senior Software Engineer — Scalable Distributed Storage

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Spanner is a globally replicated, scalable, SQL-aware database that provides strong consistency guarantees and is a key asset of Google's storage services.

In this role you will be responsible for building critical features and enhance their scalability, reliability, and availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.

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 distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Spanner is a globally replicated, scalable, SQL-aware database that provides strong consistency guarantees and is a key asset of Google's storage services.

In this role you will be responsible for building critical features and enhance their scalability, reliability, and availability.