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Google · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Storage API

Kirkland, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$197K/yr - $291K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops innovative solutions for billions of users. The Staff Software Engineer for Google Cloud Storage API will lead the redesign of the next-generation serving stack and drive the implementation of features that enable customers to leverage AI at scale, while mentoring other engineers on the team.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the goal and technical execution to completely rewrite and redesign GCS's next-generation serving stack

Drive the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-year customer-facing features, focusing specifically on enabling customers to leverage AI at scale and advancing service availability

Act as the technical owner for the most impactful and ambiguous problems within the GCS API space, ensuring high-quality, delivered solutions

Provide technical guidance and establish partnerships with engineering teams across Google Cloud to unify serving architectures and solve organizational issues

Mentor and develop talented engineers on the team, helping them to grow their careers while successfully working on these ambitious engineering issues

Qualification

Cloud-based storage systemsDistributed systemsPerformance optimizationMachine Learning infrastructureOpen-source contributionsCaching technologiesSoftware developmentBachelor's degreeMaster’s degreePhDTechnical leadership

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 building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture

3 years of experience with performance tuning or performance optimization

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

5 years of experience developing cloud-based storage systems

Experience building or supporting high-performance Machine Learning infrastructure

Experience as a contributor to or maintainer of significant open-source projects, particularly those related to cloud storage, networking, or gRPC/API protocols

Experience in caching technologies and data locality optimization in distributed environments

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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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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