Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Storage, Consensus, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Warsaw, Poland

Google Cloud is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on infrastructure storage, consensus, and related systems. The role involves developing, maintaining, and simplifying systems primarily in C++, leading design reviews, reviewing code, triaging issues, and debugging. The focus is on building foundational components for Google's services, with an emphasis on distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write product or system development code. Develop, maintain, and simplify systems in C++.
  2. Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among 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
  • C++
  • infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • object-oriented programming
  • templates
  • Standard Template Library (STL)

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • infrastructure systems
  • distributed storage
  • system security
  • data structure and algorithm
  • developing accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
  • 5 years of experience with building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks
  • Experience with working in computer science environments, with software designing
  • Experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language