Software Engineer III, Filestore

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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

• Be responsible for developing many new customer facing features critical for meeting product business roadmap, as well as enhancing existing infrastructures for better reliability and new requirements.
• Work with peers from other aspects of the product development lifecycle, including all filesystem engineering teams, program management, CP, DP, SRE, UX/UI.
• Participate in the development of new features, infrastructure, and performance improvements in a complex distributed and performance sensitive system.
• Help grow and mentor the team, be a part of a well-experienced group and impact the critical architecture and design decisions.
• Work with product and customers, to best fit future requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Software development experience in Java.
• Knowledge of clustered/distributed and concurrent programming.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and technologies, and knowledge of filesystems and storage.
• Good understanding of distributed systems principles and concepts.