Senior Software Engineer, CNS2, Replication Team
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in coding in one or more of the following languages: Java, C++, or Python.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Familiarity with the internals of storage systems, file systems, or databases.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, fault tolerance, replication, partitioning).
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 manage information at a 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.In this role, you will be a part of the Replication Team (also known as Placer Team), which owns Placer product and CNS2 asynchronous replication area, both currently being under active development.
Placer is a low-overhead system service that manages replication of and access to sets of CNS files.
CNS is Google's internal, cluster-level, exabyte-scale filesystem used by teams like YouTube, BigQuery and Search and is a critical building block of Google services, while CNS2 is a new generation of CNS with a location-agnostic namespace, native data replication, transparent tiering and flexible regional placement policies, among other features.
You will make CNS2 the filesystem for a truly global computer while Replication Team being a crucial part of this endeavor.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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
- Design, develop, and test, scalable, and high-performance software for a distributed storage system, primarily using C++.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of new features and significant system improvements, often starting from ambiguous problem statements.
- Analyze and improve the efficiency, reliability, and performance of the storage system.
- Debug and resolve issues in large-scale distributed environments, including those in production, often in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
- Collaborate with partner teams (e.g., SRE, EngProd, and client teams) to deliver on project goals.
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