Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Spanner Platform

Company: Google
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 4, 2026

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture. Experience in the following areas: distributed systems, back-end, teamwork. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. Experience programming in C++. Experience with solving problems at scale. 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. Join Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's database service at industry leading scale and reliability and one of the largest distributed systems in the world! Spanner is 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. It is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. The service health team's mission is to provide our customers with a predictable and robust experience at 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 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 $174,000-$252,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 . Responsibilities Make the impact to our biggest Cloud customers with ambiguous challenges to solve at scale. Design and develop features to support future scale, increase resiliency and isolation. Identify future bottlenecks through monitoring, experimenting and other signals and propose solutions. 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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