Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Bigtable

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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

• 3 years of experience testing/launching software products, and 1 year of experience in software design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Distributed Systems or Database Internals, or a related field.

• Experience building and scaling high-availability managed cloud services and ability to troubleshoot complex, non-deterministic issues in petabyte-scale distributed environments.

• Advanced proficiency in performance-critical C++ and low-level resource management.

• Knowledge of NoSQL internals, wide-column stores, or distributed storage systems (e.g., Bigtable, HBase, Cassandra).

• Knowledge of distributed systems theory, including consensus protocols (e.g., Paxos, Raft) and consistency models.

• Tack record of mentoring engineers and optimizing engineering processes (e.g., CI/CD, testing) to drive team self-sufficiency.