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Google · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Spanner Platform

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$166K/yr - $244K/yr

5+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies for billions of users. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Spanner Platform to design and develop features that support scalability and resiliency while collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex challenges.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Make high impact to our biggest Cloud customers with a lot of large, ambiguous challenges to solve at scale

Design and develop features to support future scale, increase resiliency and isolation

Identify future bottlenecks through monitoring, experimenting and other signals and propose solutions

Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and other partner teams to drive holistic solutions, often spanning multiple quarters and requiring cross team influence and strong communication skills

Qualification

Software developmentDistributed systemsLarge-scale infrastructureC++Database conceptsTeamworkProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages

3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture

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: Distributed Systems, Back-end, Teamwork

Preferred

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

Experience programming in C++

Experience with solving problems at scale

Experience with database core concepts, consistency, isolation

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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