Staff Software Engineer, Core Data Storage

Google

8 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 10/07/2025

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
Experience with working on C++ over large code bases.
Experience in Server platform/Boq/Pod.
Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems and with Storage systems and query engines.
Experience in Debugging and profiling (performance optimizations) and production systems (e.g., Traffic management, Borg).
Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

About the job

Google's 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 Google’s 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.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. 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 Google’s 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

Make storage systems more efficient and scalable while improving the velocity of 1P developers.
Become an expert on User-Defined Function (UDF) ecosystem, Leverage server platform. Design, build, and productionize high priority work.
Collaborate with our customers (e.g., other Google teams) as well as partner teams (e.g., SQL pipelines/Spanner/F1).
Influence the team’s priorities and working style. Work with experienced Software Engineers (SWEs) and gain experience in performing technical work.
Build new high scale offerings and enables hundreds of clients.

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.