Software Engineer III, Google Cloud Storage, Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA is seeking software engineers to design and implement scalable storage and cloud-based systems. You will contribute to large-scale distributed storage projects within Google Cloud Storage, tackling challenging performance and reliability problems.

The role emphasizes versatility, leadership, and a willingness to work across full-stack technologies, with in-person interviews typically required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development with C++.
• 2 years building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms or SaaS products.

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.

Skills

C++ development

Distributed systems

Cloud/SaaS experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 2 years of experience with software development using C++.


• 2 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or storage architecture.


• Experience developing solutions on Cloud Computing platforms or building Software as a Service (SaaS) products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.


• Experience building or modeling large-scale distributed storage systems or I/O intensive applications.


• Experience delivering deep performance, scalability, or reliability improvements in distributed environments.

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.

We are Google Cloud Storage (GCS), the object store for Google's cloud, and this is a planet-scale distributed storage system that manages exabytes of user data, trillions of objects, terrabits of traffic, and millions of queries per second (qps). In this role, you will serve some of the world’s largest consumer and enterprise companies, startups in many industries, and Google's own services like Drive, Gmail, Photos and YouTube. As a part of this team, your work will directly impact the storage capacity for Google's Product Area and its customers. You will have a front row seat to make the fleet more efficient and packing more bytes into the fleet.

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.

About the job

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire.

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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

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