Staff Software Engineer, Persistent Disk Snapshot Team

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.

Persistent Disk (PD) Snapshot team delivers foundational data protection and disaster recovery solutions for Google Cloud’s Persistent Disk (PD). We are responsible for PD Snapshots and Instant Snapshots-critical backup primitives ensuring business continuity for global enterprises. While standard PD Snapshots offer highly durable, geo-redundant storage in Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Instant Snapshots provide ultra-fast, in-place checkpoints for rapid recovery. Our mission is to build the most reliable, scalable, and high-performance data protection infrastructure in the cloud, helping customers seamlessly guard against data loss with minimal downtime.

In this role, you will manage distributed storage and metadata challenges at exabyte scale, directly impacting the reliability and trustworthiness of Google Cloud Platform for millions of users worldwide.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.