Google

Staff Software Engineer, Database Efficiency

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20 hours ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on projects and influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams regarding goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Use hardware/software co-design and knowledge of modern server architecture to develop targeted performance enhancements.
  • Investigate massive database and analytics workloads to identify and resolve critical performance bottlenecks across the compute stack.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions while managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++ or Python.
  • 5 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
  • Experience with database internals, performance analysis, and software architecture.
  • 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.
  • Preferred: 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Preferred: 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
  • Preferred: experience in computer architecture.

Benefits

  • US base pay is listed as $207000-$300000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • The role is part of Google’s AI and Infrastructure organization and offers opportunities to work across projects and teams.

Tech Stack

C++Google CloudPython

Categories

Google

About Google

10,000+ employees

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.

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