Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Storage Efficiency
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 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.
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is the object store and lynchpin of Google’s Cloud platform. GCS works at planet-scale and supports both external customers and internal Google services like YouTube, Drive, Photos, and Gmail. We host trillions of objects, store exabytes of user data, and process millions of Queries per second (QPS).
This role is for the GCS Blob Efficiency team within Google Cloud Storage. Our goal is to improve storage overheads and lower costs. Most partners are Software Engineers within GCS based in Sunnyvale and Infra Storage teams in New York. You will have experience in large-scale distributed systems and be excited about massive-scale optimizations.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Write product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of programming experience in C++.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- Experience with Object Storage (Google Cloud Storage, OCI Object Storage, minIO, etc.).
- Experience with storage efficiency techniques, e.g. Striping, Erasure Encoding, Defragmentation.