Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, AlloyDB High Availability

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.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consists of 5 major areas: Compute, Network, Storage (unstructured data), Databases (online structured data), and Big Data (offline data analytics). AlloyDB is part of the GCP Database area that focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS) - a multi-billion dollar business opportunity and growth accelerator for other GCP products.

AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade transactional database. This new product combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for availability, performance, security and manageability. The product unlocks a huge market opportunity for enterprise databases to move easily into the cloud, without sacrificing commercial DB features.

You will have the opportunity to design and build foundational architecture pieces that enable extreme high availability guarantees for AlloyDB customers.

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.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Design and build the high availability architecture evolution for a fully managed relational database.
• Work alongside the TL to drive long-term technical direction.
• Own and drive the design and implementation of major components across the database stack.
• Help to influence and shape team's culture and process. Grow and mentor other engineers on the team.
• Partner with product managers to define product direction and collaborate with other GCP teams to drive alignments.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development using C++, Java or Go.
• 3 years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems or backend infrastructure.
• 1 year of experience leveraging AI tools or frameworks to accelerate development and engineering productivity.
• Experience designing and developing relational databases, database internals, information retrieval, query planning and execution.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience building managed services (particularly for databases or storage) and developing scalable solutions on Cloud Computing platforms.
• Experience architecting High Availability (HA) infrastructure, distributed consensus, or disaster recovery technologies.
• Experience in Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) kernel or RDBMS storage.
• Experience in a technical leadership role, guiding technical strategic direction or mentoring engineers.