Google is looking 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 to provide strong consistency guarantees and high availability.
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.
- Understanding of distributed computing concepts, consensus algorithms (e.g., Paxos).
- Experience with transactional database systems.
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.
- Work on Paxos, the consensus protocol that ensures data in Spanner is replicated across several clusters
- Solve critical problems related to Spanner availability and scale
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
