Software Engineer III, Google Cloud Storage

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

Job summary

Google’s Cloud Storage team manages Blobstore, a planet-scale distributed storage system powering YouTube, Photos, Workspace, and more. We seek engineers to develop and maintain metadata infrastructure for this scale, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as Google grows.

In this role, you will contribute to metadata infrastructure powering Google’s massive storage system. Google Cloud accelerates digital transformation with enterprise-grade solutions and global reach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience or 1 year with an advanced degree in industry.
• 2 years developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems, or experience with compute/storage technologies.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with algorithms.

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.
• 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 the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Software development experience

Infrastructure development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related fields

Job description

Minimum 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.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• Experience writing high-quality code in C++, or another general-purpose language.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, particularly in the storage domain.
• Experience operating or developing a large scale service.
• Familiarity with cloud storage systems.

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.

The Google Cloud Storage (GCS) team provides planet-scale object storage solutions for both Google's cloud customers with GCS and internal products with Blobstore. Blobstore is the core storage platform for multiple Google products and is one of the largest distributed systems in the world. Our team is responsible for building and managing the core metadata infrastructure for Blobstore – a planet-scale distributed storage system that handles over 100 trillion objects and several million QPS.

In this role, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining the metadata infrastructure that powers Google's massive storage system, Blobstore, which is a critical storage system for products like YouTube, Photos, Workspace, Android, AI/ML platforms and more.

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: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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 the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

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