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Staff Software Engineer, Persistent Disk Snapshot Team

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BengaluruFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Google Cloud software engineering role focused on PD Snapshot and Instant Snapshot technology, delivering backup, disaster recovery primitives at exabyte scale for Google Cloud Persistent Disk.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a critical technical leader setting the strategy, roadmap, and architectural direction for Google Cloud's backup and disaster recovery primitives.
  • Be responsible for managing large, highly ambiguous problems where the path forward is unclear, reducing chaos, and building consensus across multiple cross-functional teams.
  • Lead the evolution of PD Snapshots and Instant snapshots to support exponential growth, driving multi-quarter initiatives exabyte-scale data routing, metadata isolation, and zero-latency in-place backup mechanisms.
  • Be a multiplier who advocates product excellence, drives system reliability, and mentors executive and junior engineers alike to achieve ambitious milestones at global scale.
  • Align stakeholders, peer teams, and executive leaders across PD Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Product Manager (PM) on critical design and integration decisions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Skills

Required:C++Distributed systems
Nice to have:Data structures and algorithms
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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