Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Storage

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with Performance optimization.
• Experience with C++ and software architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience in building storage solutions involving hardware offloads.
• Experience in driving multi-year engineering projects across multiple teams.
• Experience in defining technical strategy for major software products.

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.

Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is an object storage system that supports both external Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers and internal Google services. GCS is GCP's storage product and a major contributor to GCP business. The Serving Fabric team is responsible for the upper half of the data serving stack in GCS and also for client-side software interacting with GCS.

As a Senior Staff Engineer for this team, you will be responsible for key aspects of technical direction and innovation strategy for GCS, with direct impact over critical business objectives.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Iterate through ideas and prototypes in a small team to identify viable solutions to hard technical problems.
• Define and drive a technical roadmap in the GCS Offloads domain, balancing short and long-term technology investments, new product launches and tech debt reduction.
• Drive adoption of hardware and software innovations across GCS stack by influencing teams and stakeholders across Storage, Networking, Compute and Platforms.
• Review technical designs from the team, guide technical discussions and grow technical leaders.
• Uphold a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and respect.