Senior Software Engineer, Google Cloud Filestore, Copy Services
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 15, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
Filestore provides a fully managed NFS service for Enterprise Cloud users who need a traditional file system that is hosted in GCP. We are transforming our services into an active, intelligent substrate for Agents that can support 10s of millions of Agents, with high-performing, persistent, secure, and shareable storage.
The Copy Services Team owns Filestore's Backup and Disaster Recovery mechanisms, backing up 1.5 Petabytes and replicating 250TiB daily for thousands of Filestore customers.
Our mission is to deliver an enterprise grade, high performance, highly reliable filesystem as a service for GCP customers, build the most advanced and feature-full cloud filesystem in the world, and build a system capable to grow according to customer demand and usage in terms of capacity and performance.
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.
Responsibilities
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Define, design and implement the next set of key features of the Cloud Filestore backup services.
- Work closely with peers from Filesystem engineering, product, project management, and SRE teams.
- Improve the existing backups and disaster recovery functionality and infrastructures.
- Help define, design and implement the next generation of the filesystem's backups service.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms, and 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 working with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholder groups.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale filesystems or distributed storage systems.
- Deep expertise in storage systems, distributed systems architecture, data replication, and disaster recovery technologies.