Google · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer, Database/Analytics Performance
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$197K/yr - $291K/yr
8+ years expGoogle is a leading technology company that develops innovative solutions to connect and empower users globally. The Staff Software Engineer will focus on optimizing performance and reliability for Google's database and analytics infrastructure, leveraging expertise in performance, distributed systems, and computer architecture.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO
Responsibilities
Design, prototype, and implement optimizations in software, system libraries, and distributed algorithms to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resource efficiency
Leverage hardware/software co-design to unlock new performance capabilities, translate the knowledge of modern server architecture into software enhancements
Measure the impact of the work through benchmarking, statistical analysis, and production A/B testing to validate performance gains and demonstrate cost savings
Lead investigations into performance anomalies and production incidents, performing root-cause analysis that traces issues from application reasoning down to hardware behavior
Apply Machine Learning (ML) techniques to automate performance diagnostics and tuning, and architect data systems to efficiently support Machine Learning (ML) workloads from feature engineering to inference
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
8 years of experience in software development
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products
5 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging
3 years of experience with software design and architecture
Experience with performance analysis, and computer architecture
Preferred
PhD in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on computer architecture, operating systems, or distributed systems
6 years of experience leading cross-functional projects in performance engineering for systems
Experience building systems that apply statistical analysis or Machine Learning to automate performance diagnostics, anomaly detection, or tuning
Experience in mentoring executive engineers, with thought leadership
Ability to identify and deliver optimizations through hardware/software co-design
Ability to influence and drive technical roadmaps and architectural decisions across multiple engineering organizations
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$26.1MKey Investors
Andy Bechtolsheim
2004-08-19IPO
1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M
1998-11-01Angel· $1M
Leadership Team
Sundar Pichai
CEO
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