
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Spanner Platform
Sunnyvale, CAJob$174–252K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Senior Software Engineer will work on Google Cloud Spanner’s service health team, focusing on scale, isolation, and resiliency for a globally distributed relational database. The role involves developing features for future scale, identifying bottlenecks, and leading architectural changes in a massively distributed system. The engineer will collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering and partner teams to deliver solutions for Cloud customers.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
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3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
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3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
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Experience with: Distributed Systems, Backend.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
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Experience programming in C++.
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Experience with solving problems at scale.
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Experience with database core concepts, consistency, and isolation.
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.
As a part of Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's database service at industry-leading scale and reliability and one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work with 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, is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability.
As a part of the service health team, your mission is to provide our customers with a predictable and robust experience at an 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 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
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Make the impact to our biggest Cloud customers with ambiguous challenges to solve at scale.
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Design and develop features to support future scale, increase resiliency and isolation.
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Identify future bottlenecks through monitoring, experimenting and other signals and propose solutions.
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Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and other partner teams to drive holistic solutions, often spanning multiple quarters and requiring cross-team influence and excellent communication skills.
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Lead architectural changes in a massively distributed system.
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How this job compares
Set against the 42,005 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$174–252K/yr
- California median$165–247K/yr7,759 salary ranges
- US median$135–219K/yr33,404 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $213K, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,661 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 42,005 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (34,475 postings).
- Education
- 13,250 of the 42,005 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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