Senior Staff Software Engineer, Databases, Cloud Memorystore
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
