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Google · 3 months ago

Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Infra Spanner

Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$141K/yr - $202K/yr

2+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies to enhance how users connect and interact with information. The Software Engineer III in Infrastructure will work on critical projects related to Spanner, a globally-replicated database, focusing on data consistency, availability, and performance while solving complex problems in distributed systems.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

C++Distributed databasesPerformance analysisConcurrencyDatabase internalsTransactional database systemsDistributed computingDebuggingMultithreadingSynchronizationPaxos

Required

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

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)

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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