Google Technology/Software

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sunnyvale, CA In person Full-time

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.

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