Staff Software Engineer, AlloyDB, Database Internals at Google

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

AlloyDB is part of the Google Cloud Database area and focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS) space - a multi-billion dollar business opportunity and growth accelerator for other Google Cloud products. AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade, cloud native transactional database for high availability and performance. AlloyDB, combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for availability, performance, security and manageability. The AlloyDB India team contributes to both the database control plane and the database kernel, and additionally focuses on integration with extended functionalities in the Google Cloud ecosystem, developer tooling and database clients. The team is also focuses on Open Source contributions from the project.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code for high-performance database internals, specifically focusing on the design and implementation of query engines for AlloyDB.

• 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.

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

• Take ownership of specific components and contribute to the team's technical discussions, continuously learning and applying best practices.

• 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.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development.

• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.

• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

• Experience with software development in C and C++.

• Experience with database internals (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), query optimization and compilers.

• Experience leading a team of software engineers to build, and deliver managed services.

• Experience with RDBMS internals.

• Knowledge of RDBMS core functions such as serializability and consistency.