Google's Spanner is a globally-replicated, scalable SQL-aware database that provides strong consistency guarantees and high availability. We are looking for Software Engineers to solve critical problems related to Spanner availability and scale, specifically working on Paxos, the consensus protocol that ensures data in Spanner is replicated across several clusters so that Spanner can keep it available in the presence of failures and network partitions.
Requirements
- 2 years of experience programming in C++, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
- 2 years of experience designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems.
- Experience in performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems.
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.
- Experience with database internals and diagnosing of issues such as memory leaks, data corruption, database performance and tuning.
- Experience with transactional database systems.
- Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).
Responsibilities
- Write and test product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
- Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
