7 hours ago
Base Salary
$207k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Management and engineering teams to define the roadmap for next-generation Google Compute Engine VM offerings.
- Design, architect, and develop scalable solutions that optimize VM performance, hardware efficiency, and infrastructure utilization.
- Lead multi-functional initiatives across hardware, kernel, virtualization, and product teams from conception through production.
- Analyze, benchmark, and optimize massive-scale customer workloads and advise critical customers on performance issues.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and establish engineering best practices for performance analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 5 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- Experience with CPU and memory architectures such as x86 and ARM and with modern server hardware performance characteristics.
- Experience architecting or technically leading multi-year infrastructure initiatives from conception through global deployment.
- Experience with OS kernels, hypervisors or virtualization stacks such as KVM or Xen, high-performance networking drivers, or storage stacks.
- Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms and 3 years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience collaborating with principal engineers at strategic enterprise customers to resolve large-scale performance bottlenecks.
- Understanding of hardware/software boundaries, performance profiling tools, microarchitectural optimization, and hardware acceleration techniques.
Benefits
- Benefits are provided through Google; the posting does not specify individual benefit details.
- The role includes a 20% bonus target and equity in addition to base pay.
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.