23 hours ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical execution and scoping of highly complex, ambiguous projects addressing core product limitations.
- Design and implement scalable backend systems that manage massive query volumes.
- Make physical design and implementation decisions for performance at scale.
- Build flexible internal tooling capabilities and configurable serving-layer solutions.
- Author comprehensive technical designs, contribute to critical code paths, and perform code reviews.
- Identify and resolve cost-performance, query-latency, and throughput bottlenecks as datasets grow.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience building or developing infrastructure, distributed systems, networks, compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience designing, tuning, or building vector search systems is preferred.
- Experience architecting and deploying large-scale systems across a major cloud platform is preferred.
- Expert knowledge of distributed systems, including partitioning, replication, consistency models, and stateful versus serverless trade-offs, is preferred.
- Strong backend systems engineering experience with high-throughput data access layers, custom APIs, concurrency controls, and persistent storage engines is preferred.
Benefits
- The posting lists benefits and equity in addition to a 20% bonus target.
- The role is based in Poland, with compensation stated in PLN.
Tech Stack
Google Cloud
Categories
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.