Product area

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.

Job description

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.

Additional job description

Hyperdisk and Persistent Disk are Google's virtual block storage offering foundational building block for Cloud workloads, from databases to Machine Learning (ML) workloads.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Design and build the next generation of systems to run, manage, and plan performance workloads on Google's block storage platform.
• Be responsible for system architecture, technical direction, and execution. Manage distributed systems tests to make it seamless for customers.
• Engage with customers using Mandarin language for technical collaboration, and to understand and solve regional workload requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Google Compute Engine (GCE), networking, and ML teams.
• Work with C++ to collaborate with key regional partners and teams.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, with 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture, and with programming in C++.
• Experience as a technical lead, including mentoring executive engineers and setting technical strategy for a team or project in designing, building, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience with storage systems and their principles (e.g., block storage, distributed file systems, storage virtualization).
• Ability to communicate in Mandarin fluently to collaborate with the partners.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with the infrastructure and management of large-scale data workloads, such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Spark, or related big data frameworks.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud) and infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads.