Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Spanner Platform

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.

Join Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's database service at industry leading scale and reliability and one of the largest distributed systems in the world!

Spanner is a globally distributed relational database service that is widely used by most of Google’s products and services. Cloud Spanner is the cloud native offering of Spanner on Google Cloud Platform. It is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.

The service health team's mission is to provide our customers with a predictable and robust experience at unmatched scale, no matter the size or shape of their workload. Scale, isolation and resiliency are the three pillars within the team that we focus on.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.