Database Internals Senior Software Engineer, GCP Databases, AlloyDB

SOFTWARE_ENGINEERING
USA
November 12, 2025
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    November 12, 2025
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2025-10-22T16:00:03.878Z

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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 with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
  • Experience in the following areas: Relational Databases, Database Internals, Distributed Databases, Storage, SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • Experience with C/C++ and designing and developing large-scale distributed systems or relational databases in concurrency control, indexing, transactional systems, multithreading and synchronization, compilers, query processing.
  • Experience in performance benchmarking, code optimization/debugging, non-intrusive metrics collection and profiling.
  • Experience with internals of any open source database, postgres or MySQL etc.
  • Experience in designing, implementing, tuning and optimizing database management systems and in building managed services (DB or Storage).
  • Understanding to any of TPC-C, TPC-H, TPC-D benchmark tuning, specifications development and publishing.

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.

AlloyDB is part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Database area that focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS); a business opportunity and growth accelerator for other GCP products.

AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade transactional database. This new product combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for availability, performance, security and manageability.

The product unlocks a huge market opportunity for enterprise databases to move easily into the cloud, without sacrificing commercial DB features.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Play a critical role in designing and building differentiating features in the transaction processing area and deliver innovations to a large set of enterprise customers.
  • Own and drive the design and implementation of major components across the database stack.
  • Work alongside the TL to drive long term technical direction and partnering with product managers to define product direction.
  • Collaborate with other GCP/AlloyDB teams to drive alignments.
  • Grow and mentor other engineers into excellent engineers.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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