Tech lead, Persistent Disk Control Plane

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Google place Kirkland, WA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience or experience with a relevant advanced degree.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical goals and direction, and experience with distributed systems (e.g., load-balancing and replication techniques, distributed consensus, and handling of network and hardware failures).
• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems:
  Unix/Linux environments, REST API development (throttling, latency, quota management.), distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, storage, networking, developing software systems, or security software development.

• Experience in control plane infrastructure for distributed services, API performance tuning, security/compliance across resources, customer workflow simplification and observability.
• Experience with multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization, including synchronization primitives, trade-offs, data locality, caching, and pitfalls (e.g., ABA and false sharing).

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.

In this role, you will provide technical and thought leadership for the Persistent Disk control plane team, the rest of GCE Control Plane organization (Compute, Networking, Minfra), our partners and customers to evolve PD Control Plane, delight users, and grow the business. 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.

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