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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Google· Google Cloud Spanner Enterprise (Infrastructure)
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Sunnyvale, CA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer position on the Cloud Spanner Enterprise team at Google Cloud, focusing on distributed database systems with high availability and enterprise-grade features.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and develop mission-critical enterprise features to drive Cloud Spanner's next stage of evolution, engineering distributed database systems that operate at high consistency, low latency, and 99.999% availability.
  • Make complex, ambiguous distributed systems problems tractable and help set the long-term technical strategy for your responsible areas.
  • Strengthen operational reliability through automation, maintaining rigorous defensive engineering standards for high availability and proactively preventing scaling, security, and compliance bottlenecks.
  • Serve as the Subject Matter Expert representing Cloud Spanner with large enterprise customers, external partners, and internal stakeholders (Product Management, Legal, Security), building consensus across adjacent teams with competing priorities to align on technical roadmaps.
  • Mentor junior engineers through constructive design reviews, technical guidance, and active sponsorship while fostering a collaborative engineering environment of psychological safety where differing architectural ideas are debated constructively.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:C++ programmingDistributed systemsSoftware design and architecture
Nice to have:Operational reliability

Benefits

  • US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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