Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 6 years of experience programming in C++, Python or Go.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 4 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience with C / C++ and designing and developing large-scale distributed systems or relational databases in concurrency control, indexing, transactional systems, multithreading and synchronization, compilers, query processing.
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive designs, lead infrastructure level projects, and work cross-functionally with multiple teams. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Spanner powers Google's most critical services and the world's leading enterprises, and needs no introduction to most Google engineers. It is a globally-replicated, massively scalable, and SQL-aware database that provides strong consistency guarantees.
This job posting is for the Spanner Data Protection team in Bengaluru, India, responsible for the backups, restores, and other data protection needs for internal Google products and external Google Cloud customers.
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.
Responsibilities
- Implement advanced capabilities for a distributed database service to drive Spanner's next stage of evolution. Write and test product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. Build distributed systems that operate at high consistency and low latency, with extremely high (99.999%) availability.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Partner with related engineering teams to support Spanner's strategy and growth and 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 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 .
