Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

8 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 coding in one or more programming languages.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

People management experience in a technical environment.
Knowledge in the storage domain.
Excellent communication, process optimization, and collaboration skills.
Excellent technical leadership, project management, investigative problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.

About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. 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’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. 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.

We provide a comprehensive and fully managed network file system (NFS) file storage service (Filestore) for all needs within the Google Cloud Platform. We empower enterprises migrating from on-premise environments and support any application within GCP requiring reliable and scalable NFS storage, capitalizing on the significant and growing demand in this market.

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

Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.

Own plan and execution, working on multiple user facing features and architecture tasks.
Collaborate with various stake-holders, technical leaders, engineering managers and SWEs in order to fulfill the team's mission and plan.
Grow and mentor the team, help others achieve career goals, identify roadblocks, prioritize efforts and reduce ambiguity.
Work with peers from other aspects of the product development lifecycle, including all Filestore engineering teams, product management, program management, SRE.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.