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Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Compute, Performance

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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the roadmap for next-generation Google Cloud Compute VM offerings with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams.
  • 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.
  • Advise strategic customers by analyzing, benchmarking, and optimizing massive-scale workloads and performance bottlenecks.
  • 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 serving as an architect or technical lead for multi-year infrastructure initiatives from conception to global deployment.
  • Experience with OS kernels, hypervisors or virtualization stacks such as KVM or Xen, 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 clients to resolve complex, large-scale performance bottlenecks.
  • Understanding of hardware/software boundaries, performance profiling, microarchitectural optimization, and hardware acceleration techniques.
  • Ability to drive technical alignment across Product Management, Hardware Engineering, and foundational Software teams.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $207000-$300000 USD annually, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google benefits are available; specific benefits are referenced in the posting but not itemized.

Tech Stack

C++Google Cloud

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