Senior Software Engineer, GCP Databases, AlloyDB

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience in the following areas: relational databases, database internals, distributed databases, storage, SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with C/C++ and designing and developing large-scale distributed systems or relational databases in concurrency control, indexing, transactional systems, multithreading and synchronization, compilers, query processing.
• Experience with RDBMS internals.
• Experience with query optimization and compilers.

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.

AlloyDB is part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Database area that focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS); a 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.

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

• Write product or system development code for high-performance database internals, specifically focusing on the design and implementation of query engines for AlloyDB.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies, driving architectural direction for large-scale distributed systems and transactional consistency.
• 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, including performance benchmarking and optimization of query execution.

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