Minimum qualifications:
- 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.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
Experience architecting and developing software or infrastructure for
scalable, high performance, distributed systems.- Experience with distributed storage systems.
- Experience designing and deploying innovative new features within Kubernetes.
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 is bringing our cloud anywhere with Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) — in your data center, at the edge, and in the cloud. The Storage Everywhere team is building the storage solutions to allow stateful applications to seamlessly run across all of these environments.
The GDC File and Block Storage team is critical to GDC air-gapped, delivering robust, high-performance, and secure file and block storage services. Our team is responsible for the full lifecycle of file and block storage within Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDCH), from hardware integration with partners like NetApp (ONTAP AFF series) to providing secure, multi-tenant storage for our customers.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and integrate core file and block storage features and management within the GDCH ecosystem.
- Define, measure, and optimize storage performance to meet stringent input/output operations per second (IOPS), throughput, and latency requirements. Align with Google Cloud best practices, using tools like fio for comprehensive benchmarking and performance characterization.
- Build and enhance observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation capabilities to ensure the high availability and smooth operation of file and block storage components.
- Address and resolve complex issues through our root-cause/remediation process, including identifying and closing test gaps with unit, integration, and chaos testing.
