Tech Lead, Software Engineer, Persistent Disk Control Plane - Google

Minimum qualifications: + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms. + 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. + Experience working with distributed systems (load-balancing and replication techniques, distributed consensus, handling of network and hardware failures). 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. + Experience architecting and developing distributed systems: Unix/Linux environments, REST API development (throttling, latency, quota mgmt.), distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, storage, networking, developing large software systems, or security software development. + Experience building managed storage solutions (data protection, data recovery, security/compliance across resources, customer workflow simplification, etc.) for public cloud. + Experience in Multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization (synchronization primitives, pitfalls, trade-offs, data locality, caching). 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. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. As Tech Lead, you will build and design the system that solves complex distributed system problems, while simultaneously developing your technical skills. You will drive the road map for scalable, reliable and industry-leading performance for data protection solutions in the control plane. You will collaborate with and influence technical leads, engineers, and product managers across Google Cloud. 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) . + Establish technology and product goals in collaboration with product management, site reliability engineers and software engineers. + Architect and design features aimed at providing the highest levels of reliability, compliance, scalability and efficiency in a distributed and performance-sensitive control plane. + Oversee and guide the team to design high performance and scalable control plane features, support end user APIs and provide clear, concise and unambiguous API surfaces. Integrating with various lower stack layers for providing functionality. + Drive execution of projects across the organization, identify technical risks and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders. + Coach and mentor engineers to design and implement available and reliable services. 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.