Required Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Filestore
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
Filestore provides a fully managed Network File System (NFS) service for Enterprise Cloud users who need file storage to replace their on-premise hardware when they move to the Cloud.
This is an amazing opportunity to join and impact an early-stage, hi-growth project that builds from the grounds-up a new infrastructure for Cloud Filestore - a shared, distributed, enterprise-level filesystem.
Responsibilities
Define, design and implement key components, built from the ground-up, for the next-gen of Filestore focusing on performance, reliability, efficiency and resilience.
Help grow and mentor the team, be a part of a well-experienced group and impact the critical architecture and design decisions.
Work with peers from other aspects of the product development lifecycle, including all filesystem engineering teams, product management, program management, SRE, UX/UI.
Work with product and customers, to best fit future requirements.
Develop software primarily in C++.

Required Software Engineer III, Filestore
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Responsibilities
Be responsible for developing many new customer facing features critical for meeting product business roadmap, as well as enhancing existing infrastructures for better reliability and new requirements.
Work with peers from other aspects of the product development lifecycle, including all filesystem engineering teams, program management, CP, DP, SRE, UX/UI.
Participate in the development of new features, infrastructure, and performance improvements in a complex distributed and performance sensitive system.
Help grow and mentor the team, be a part of a well-experienced group and impact the critical architecture and design decisions.
Work with product and customers, to best fit future requirements.

Required Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Filestore, Copy Services
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
Filestore provides a fully managed NFS service for Enterprise Cloud users who need a traditional file system that is hosted in GCP. We are transforming our services into an active, intelligent substrate for Agents that can support 10s of millions of Agents, with high-performing, persistent, secure, and shareable storage.
The Copy Services Team owns Filestore's Backup and Disaster Recovery mechanisms, backing up 1.5 Petabytes and replicating 250TiB daily for thousands of Filestore customers.
Our mission is to deliver an enterprise grade, high performance, highly reliable filesystem as a service for GCP customers, build the most advanced and feature-full cloud filesystem in the world, and build a system capable to grow according to customer demand and usage in terms of capacity and performance.
Responsibilities
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
Define, design and implement the next set of key features of the Cloud Filestore backup services.
Work closely with peers from Filesystem engineering, product, project management, and SRE teams.
Improve the existing backups and disaster recovery functionality and infrastructures.
Help define, design and implement the next generation of the filesystem's backups service.

Required Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Filestore
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
Responsibilities
Be responsible for Filestore data-plane layers. Starting from the entry point, networking/protocol termination, through a proprietary in-house distributed performant highly available file-system that is the core of Filestore cloud service.
Develop many new customer-facing features critical for meeting product business roadmap, as well as enhancing existing infrastructures for better reliability and new requirements.
Drive the development of new features, infrastructure, and performance improvements in a complex distributed and performance sensitive system.
Work with peers from other aspects of the product development lifecycle, including all filesystem engineering teams, product management, program management, CP, SRE, UX/UI.

Required Staff Software Engineer, Filestore, Cloud
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
Cloud Filestore is a managed file storage service for applications that require a shared filesystem through a network interface (e.g., NFS) and Enterprise-grade feature set (e.g., backups, snapshots).
Responsibilities
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of experienced engineers and Tech Leads.
Drive the technical direction, roadmap and detailed planning along with the engineering manager.
Design and architect scalable, resilient, and performant distributed filesystem backend for Filestore.
Make key decisions regarding technology choices, system design, and trade-offs.
Collaborate and work closely with product managers, SREs, and other Engineering teams within File-solutions, Storage and Google Cloud to align technical strategy with product goals.

Required Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Storage, AI/ML
About the job
Our 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 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.
As a Storage Staff Software Engineer in the datapath team, you will design and implement advanced storage solutions tailored for AI/ML workloads on Cloud Platform. You will address complex system design challenges, develop production-ready code, and contribute to fast-paced incubation projects. Your role involves developing benchmarks, resolving performance issues and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bridge storage infrastructure with evolving AI/ML demands, from training to inference. Cloud accelerates every organizations ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage our cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
Design and implement high-complexity features, delivering robust, production-ready code for storage solutions that address the specific demands of AI/ML workloads.
Architect scalable and performant storage solutions, driving the technical design for features and making data-driven decisions to optimize system efficiency and reliability.
Adapt to fast-paced development cycles for new technical domains.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and intricate system issues, developing innovative, practical solutions to technical challenges that arise at the intersection of storage and machine learning.
Partner with product and engineering stakeholders across the storage domain to deliver high-complexity features and products.

Required Software Engineer III, Database Migration, Cloud
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
In this role, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Responsibilities
Write product or system development code.
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Required Software Engineer II, Notification Platform
About the job
Our 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 our 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.The Core team builds the technical foundation behind our flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across our products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
Help the team improve our offering to collaborators by implementing new features and abilities.
Design and build back-end services and pipelines.
Collaborate with other team members to solve complex problems across a large stack of technologies.

Required Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Datastream and Database Migration Service
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
The Control & Connect (C&C) team builds the core infrastructure powering our DMS and Datastream. We own the mission-critical Control Plane and Data Movement Infrastructure that allows enterprise customers to seamlessly migrate and replicate their databases at massive scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build the core infrastructure that enables enterprise customers to replicate and migrate their databases. You will address distributed systems issues involving stateful microservices, intricate multi-region architectures, and high-throughput data pipelines. Operating in a collaborative environment, you will guide the technical design of new features, improve system reliability, and mentor fellow engineers. Our team is also pioneering AI-assisted engineering operations, giving you the opportunity to shape how we use generative AI to accelerate development, improve testing, and reduce operational toil.
Responsibilities
Design and implement resilient, multi-step long-running operations and manage orchestration workflows on our cluster management systems.
Drive architectural improvements to decouple systems, manage service overload, and integrate seamlessly with various Cloud services like AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery.
Take end-to-end ownership of ambiguous technical challenges, translating complex requirements into concrete architectures and maintaining high engineering standards through design and code reviews.
Identify and eliminate operational toil, including contributing to the team's custom AI agents to automate release pipelines and streamline on-call workflows.

Required Software Engineer III, Technical Infrastructure
About the job
Our 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 our 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.
With your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain advanced software modeling tools and simulation environments.
Leverage C++, Python, and experimental AI-driven methodologies to perform deep-dive studies and automate analytical workflows.
Conduct in-depth security analysis and threat modeling for hardware-software interfaces.
Develop and implement methodologies for detecting, mitigating, and analyzing side-channel and micro-architectural vulnerabilities, ensuring our systems meet the highest standards of safety and privacy.
Explore, deploy, and scale experimental AI-driven tooling to automate verification workflows, enhance predictive modeling, and accelerate development cycles. Contribute to expanding the team's suite of AI-assisted capabilities.