Software Engineer, Google Cloud Storage

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development and developing large-scale infrastructure, storage or distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with storage technologies/systems.
• Experience with file systems.
• Experience in building and maintaining infrastructure software in a distributed environment.
• Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to partner with local clients and regional partners.

About The Job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Google Cloud Storage (GCS), the foundational object storage service for Google's cloud. This is a planet-scale distributed storage system that manages exabytes of user data, trillions of objects, petabytes of traffic, and millions of queries per second. This massively distributed service supports major global AI, consumer, and enterprise companies, as well as numerous startups, and is a key business driver for Google Cloud. Our mission is to enable customer success for the most demanding AIML and workloads.

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.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code to implement new features and performance improvements in Google Customer Solutions (GCS) clients.
• Contribute to the team's design process by writing clear and concise technical design documents for the features, outlining proposed approach and implementation details.
• Work on debugging and resolving customer-reported issues and internal bugs. Trace problems through the client stack and apply robust fixes to improve the customer experience and system stability.
• Invest in building automated benchmarking for GCS client performance for key customer use cases by running tests, analyzing results, and helping to implement code changes that address performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in code reviews to both learn from others and help maintain a high standard for code quality across the team.