Staff Software Engineer, Alloydb, Database Internals

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Staff Software Engineer role focused on database internals, specifically query engines for AlloyDB, a cloud-native transactional database. Responsibilities include writing high-performance code, participating in design reviews, leading architectural direction, code reviews, and debugging system issues. Requires strong programming experience in languages like C++, Java, Python, or Go, and experience with software design, architecture, and launching products. Experience with database internals, query optimization, and compilers is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write product or system development code for high-performance database internals, specifically focusing on the design and implementation of query engines for AlloyDB.
  2. Participate in and lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies, driving architectural direction for large-scale distributed systems and transactional consistency.
  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. Take ownership of specific components and contribute to the team's technical discussions, continuously learning and applying best practices.
  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, including performance benchmarking and optimization of query execution.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • testing
  • launching software products

Nice to have

  • C
  • database internals
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • query optimization
  • compilers
  • RDBMS internals
  • serializability
  • consistency
  • leading software engineering teams
  • managed services