Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.
  

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.

Backup and DR as a service is a new service for Google Cloud Platform. The Backup and Disaster Recovery team delivers business continuity solutions for mission critical workloads in Google Cloud and hybrid environments. The solution includes forever incremental application consistent backups across a spectrum of workloads like VMware, Compute Engine, GCVE VMs, and databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, PostgresSQL, IBM DB2, Sybase, and MariaDB. In the event of a disaster, the solution also provides rapid recovery of VMs and databases from these incremental backups in another region. The team is working on expanding this product, supporting more regions and rapid recovery of various other first-party products such as GCE, Cloud SQL, Alloy DB, and Filestore.

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

• Understand customer requirements and competitive landscape. Work with team and Google Cloud leadership to set the team's vision and strategic goals.
• Stay abreast of the latest trends in cloud backup technology as well as GCP and drive innovation within the team. Propose and implement new features that enhance service capabilities and differentiate it from competitors.
• Architect and design scalable, reliable systems that meet the needs of Backup and DR service's growing customer base.
• Work with other GCP teams to ensure that Backup of stateful resources in GCP are done consistently using Backup and DR service.