Senior Software Engineer, Google Cloud Databases

Google Google · Big Tech · Tel Aviv, Israel

Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud Databases, focusing on developing and enhancing infrastructure for streaming data from various sources to destinations within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like Datastream and Database Migration Services (DMS). The role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, triaging issues, and contributing to documentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code in Go, Java or Python.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • testing
  • software design
  • architecture
  • debugging
  • distributed systems
  • data pipelines

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • performance measuring
  • benchmarking
  • optimizations
  • complex code bases

What the JD emphasized

  • 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.