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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, AlloyDB High Availability

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Compensation
$174–252K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design foundational high-availability architecture for AlloyDB, its managed relational database. The role involves owning major components across the database stack, shaping technical direction with team leadership, and collaborating with product managers and other Google Cloud teams. AlloyDB combines a PostgreSQL front end with custom storage and query engines for enterprise cloud databases.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Development, requiredC++, requiredJava, requiredGo, requiredDistributed Systems, requiredBackend Infrastructure, requiredAI Tools, requiredRelational Databases, requiredDatabase Internals, requiredInformation Retrieval, requiredQuery Planning, requiredQuery Execution, requiredManaged Services, nice to haveCloud Computing, nice to haveHigh Availability, nice to haveDistributed Consensus, nice to haveDisaster Recovery, nice to haveRDBMS Kernel, nice to haveRDBMS Storage, nice to haveTechnical Leadership, nice to haveMentoring, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field or Equivalent Practical Experience, required5+ Years Software Development Experience, required3+ Years Distributed Systems or Backend Infrastructure Experience, required1+ Year AI Tools or Frameworks Experience, requiredMaster's or PhD in Computer Science or Related Technical Field, nice to have

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 5 years of experience in software development using C++, Java or Go.

  • 3 years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems or backend infrastructure.

  • 1 year of experience leveraging AI tools or frameworks to accelerate development and engineering productivity.

  • Experience designing and developing relational databases, database internals, information retrieval, query planning and execution.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

  • Experience building managed services (particularly for databases or storage) and developing scalable solutions on Cloud Computing platforms.

  • Experience architecting High Availability (HA) infrastructure, distributed consensus, or disaster recovery technologies.

  • Experience in Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) kernel or RDBMS storage.

  • Experience in a technical leadership role, guiding technical strategic direction or mentoring engineers.

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.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consists of 5 major areas: Compute, Network, Storage (unstructured data), Databases (online structured data), and Big Data (offline data analytics). AlloyDB is part of the GCP Database area that focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS) - a multi-billion dollar business opportunity and growth accelerator for other GCP products.

AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade transactional database. This new product combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for availability, performance, security and manageability. The product unlocks a huge market opportunity for enterprise databases to move easily into the cloud, without sacrificing commercial DB features.

You will have the opportunity to design and build foundational architecture pieces that enable extreme high availability guarantees for AlloyDB customers.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the high availability architecture evolution for a fully managed relational database.

  • Work alongside the TL to drive long-term technical direction.

  • Own and drive the design and implementation of major components across the database stack.

  • Help to influence and shape team's culture and process. Grow and mentor other engineers on the team.

  • Partner with product managers to define product direction and collaborate with other GCP teams to drive alignments.

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,920 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–252K/yr
  • California median$187–280K/yr1,323 salary ranges
  • US median$146–253K/yr6,825 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $213K, is 8% below the California median midpoint ($231K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,802 open Software Engineering jobs in California and 8,920 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,725 postings).
Education
2,159 of the 8,920 open Software Engineering jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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