Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Infra Bigtable

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to work on large-scale distributed systems and next-generation technologies. The role is based in the Sunnyvale and New York offices, focusing on building and optimizing high-performance backend services and storage solutions.

You will engage across the full stack with leadership opportunities and cross-team collaboration. The team emphasizes reliability, scalability, and innovation in areas like information retrieval, distributed computing, and data storage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++.
• 2 years of experience with concurrent programming or optimizing software performance.
• 2 years of experience architecting and developing large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews to decide among technologies.
• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation and adapt content to updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/resolve by analyzing issues and impact.

Skills

C++ development

Concurrent programming

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Math/related field

Tools

C++

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development using C++.
  
• 2 years of experience with concurrent programming (e.g., multi-threading, asynchronous processing) or analyzing and optimizing software performance.
• 2 years of experience architecting and developing large-scale distributed systems (e.g., compute, storage, or databases).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience engineering database internals (e.g., storage engines, consensus algorithms, replication protocols, or query optimization).
  
• Experience building and operating high-throughput backend services, distributed architectures, or systems with strict high-availability requirements.
  
• Experience contributing to shared enterprise-level codebases or utilizing Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

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.

Infra Bigtable is the largest structured storage system in Google (maybe even in the world). Bigtable is also one of the key components and the largest business driver within Google Cloud’s database portfolio and is a critical infrastructure component for many of our favorite consumer services. Anything you do within Bigtable will have an outsized impact for Google. We are looking for motivated engineers interested in large-scale distributed systems to join our Sunnyvale and New York offices.

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 its impact.