Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Infra Spanner
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience programming in C++, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- 2 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
- Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience with database internals and diagnosing of issues such as memory leaks, data corruption, database performance and tuning.
- Experience with transactional database systems.
- Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).
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.Spanner is a globally-replicated, scalable SQL-aware database that provides strong consistency guarantees and high availability. It is a key asset of Google’s external and internal product portfolio of database services. In this role, you will be working on Paxos, the consensus protocol that ensures data in Spanner is replicated across several clusters so that Spanner can keep it available in the presence of failures and network partitions. Paxos is critical for data consistency, availability and performance, and Spanner is constantly pushing the distributed systems on all these dimensions.
We are looking for Software Engineers with a deep interest and significant systems experience to solve critical problems related to Spanner availability and scale.
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.
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