Software Engineer, Spanner Batch Team at Google

Seniority in posting: Mid

Compensation

$147,000 – $210,000/yr

Location: Sunnyvale, California
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: Aug 28, 2026

Description

Google is hiring a Software Engineer for its Spanner Batch Team to develop large-scale data-processing capabilities for Spanner databases. The role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing other developers’ code, contributing documentation, and triaging and debugging system issues. Candidates need significant systems experience, including distributed database or storage-system development, performance analysis, concurrency, and synchronization. The position offers a US salary of $147,000–$210,000 plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Required Skills

C++
Distributed databases
Performance analysis
Concurrency
Multithreading
Synchronization
Debugging
Paxos

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: 2 years of C++ programming experience, or 1 year with an advanced degree in an industry setting
2 years designing and developing distributed databases or storage systems
Experience with performance analysis, debugging, and optimization for distributed or low-level systems
Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization
Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field
Experience with database internals and diagnosing memory leaks, data corruption, database performance, and tuning
Experience with transactional database systems
Understanding of distributed computing concepts and consensus algorithms such as Paxos