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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Spanner Team

Google
Sunnyvale, USA
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
USD 262000-364000 / year
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction for Spanner's next-gen Batch I/O interface, including Database branching and bulk processing, and own the architectural bridge between Serving and other Spanner subsystems.
  • Lead the modernization of Spanner Serving using AI-assisted development (e.g., coding agents, LLM-driven code migration and refactoring) to reduce technical debt and operational toil without compromising correctness or availability.
  • Design, build, and deploy AI-powered tools, agents, and automated workflows that speed up the team's development lifecycle, including code review, testing, verification, debugging, and incident response.
  • Define AI-first engineering practices for the team: find the use cases with the biggest payoff and reviewing the work of AI agents, and measure the effect on speed and quality.
  • Influence and mentor engineers across Spanner, growing their technical depth and AI fluency, and share reusable patterns with partner teams across Google.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing or launching software products.
  • Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • Experienced in innovating the development process using AI.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
  • Deep understanding of database engine internals, query execution/query optimization, or distributed data storage.

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