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Google · 4 hours ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage, Google Distributed Cloud

Durham, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$248K/yr - $349K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops the next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. The Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage will serve as the Technical Lead for a team delivering file and block storage capabilities for Google Distributed Cloud, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and leading technical initiatives.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Serve as the Technical Lead and Uber Tech Lead (UTL) for a team of engineers delivering file and block storage capabilities for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC)

Drive the overall technical charter for the file and block storage teams located in Raleigh-Durham (RDU) and Cambridge (CAM)

Analyze customer deployments and use cases to ensure the architecture roadmap aligns with their requirements

Lead roadmap conversations with Product Management (PM) and prioritize the technical charter for the organization

Collaborate with the team to ensure a sound development process and that projects have well-defined outcomes

Qualification

Distributed systemsLarge-scale infrastructureTechnical leadershipData structuresSoftware architectureGoogle Kubernetes EngineCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience in software development

7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture

5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms

5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction

Experience architecting and delivering enterprise software solutions that integrate distributed computing, storage, and file systems with advanced Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) networking and Anthos frameworks

Experience designing scalable APIs, leading high-stakes customer engagements, and driving results across organizational boundaries

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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