Senior Staff Software Engineer, Databases, Cloud Memorystore

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 248,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

401(k) with company match

20 days of vacation per year

Paid sick time

Maternity and baby bonding leave

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Engineer to develop next-generation technologies, focusing on distributed systems for Google Cloud. The role involves solving complex technical challenges, leading project priorities, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have extensive C++ programming experience, solid knowledge of system design, and the ability to drive complex projects. The competitive salary range for this position is $248,000-$349,000, with bonus and equity options.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with software product design, architecture, and testing.
• Experience driving complex technical projects and providing leadership.

Responsibilities

• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Develop technical roadmaps and drive architecture and design.

Skills

C++ programming

Design and architecture

Distributed databases

System design and performance

Multithreading and synchronization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Redis

Memcached

Linux Internals

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.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Distributed Databases.
• Experience with system design and performance.

Preferred qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with database internals, C, C++, Linux Internals.
• Experience with Redis, Memcached, or other caching or database systems.
• Experience in designing and developing performance intensive systems w/multithreading and synchronization.
• Experience driving complex technical projects, including planning and execution, and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.

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.

Our team mission is to provide high performing and highly available cache-as-a-service for Google Cloud Platform customers. Cloud Memorystore team realizes this mission; we own 3 fully managed cache services built on scalable, secure and highly available infrastructure managed by Google.

In this role, you will be working on a service that combines direct customer impact with high technical challenges and you will be developing scalable services in the cloud. You will solve technical problems spanning multiple areas in distributed systems. The engineering team and business are scaling up really quickly, so ride the wave by being one of the early contributors to a whole new product tier that will increase our business by an order of magnitude.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Develop and own the long term technical roadmap, drive the architecture and design, and lead the team in implementing and delivering functionality to large customers with demanding workloads.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to define product direction and priorities, and collaborate with a number of other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) teams to drive alignment and integrations.

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.