Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Databases

Minimum qualifications:

• 12 years of engineering experience.
  
• 10 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go) and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 5 years of experience in architecting and launching software products end-to-end.
  
• Experience in building distributed systems and database services.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in operating customer facing service.
  
• Experience providing leadership in Operational and Engineering excellence.
• Track record of successful product delivery from ideation phase to successful customer onboarding.
  
• Track record of successful stakeholder management across different Google Cloud Platform teams, Data Center, and Customer Engineering teams.
  

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.

In this role, you will join a team responsible for owning, operating and innovating the entire control plane for our Database product. You will also build integration with many other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products, enabling customers to replicate data across these services.

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

• Own and deliver an engineering roadmap for a Cloud Database product.
• Deliver impactful projects end-to-end.
• Be a role model for the team and own team technical charter.
• Mentor the team to deliver high quality products.
• Lead effective communication and stakeholder management across different teams (e.g., Networking, Data Center, external partners, etc.).