Senior Software Engineer, Infra Spanner

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Write and test 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++.
• 3 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
• Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.

Nice to Have

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with database internals and diagnosing issues such as memory leaks, data corruption, database performance, and tuning.
• Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).

Qualifications

• Formal educational background includes a Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Experience with distributed systems, database internals, and performance optimization.

Benefits & Perks

• US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
• Additional benefits include bonus, equity, and other perks as determined by role, level, and location.