Senior Software Engineer

Google

5 - 7 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 15/11/2025

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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 in testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
Experience in developing accessible technologies.

About the job

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.

In this role, you will lead and improve one or more technological areas within the persistent disk and the block storage offering from Google Cloud. You will guide Junior Engineers on the team, build cross-team synergies, identify improvement areas within and adjacent teams, identify and fix tech debt, be part of on call rotations, keep releases healthy, work with our partners and customers and enhance customer satisfaction, and drive business growth.

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.

Responsibilities

Build reliable, scalable, fast replication systems. Write and test product or system development code.
Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. Ensure integrity of user data despite races (local or distributed), as well as software and hardware failures.
Drive major improvements in a code base requiring careful analysis, planning and roll out of changes. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Maintain healthy relationships with developers, SRE, Program Manager/Technical Program Manager (PM/TPM) and engineering productivity disciplines.
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.