As a part of Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's database service at industry-leading scale and reliability and one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work with a globally distributed relational database service that is widely used by most of Google’s products and services. Cloud Spanner is the cloud native offering of Spanner on Google Cloud Platform, is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.
As a part of the service health team, your mission is to provide our customers with a predictable and robust experience at an unmatched scale, no matter the size or shape of their workload. Scale, isolation and resiliency are the three pillars within the team that we focus on.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Make the impact to our biggest Cloud customers with ambiguous challenges to solve at scale.
- Design and develop features to support future scale, increase resiliency and isolation.
- Identify future bottlenecks through monitoring, experimenting and other signals and propose solutions.
- Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and other partner teams to drive holistic solutions, often spanning multiple quarters and requiring cross-team influence and excellent communication skills.
- Lead architectural changes in a massively distributed system.
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 with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience with: Distributed Systems, Backend.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience programming in C++.
- Experience with solving problems at scale.
- Experience with database core concepts, consistency, and isolation.