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Staff Software Engineer, Database/Analytics Performance

Google
Sunnyvale, CA Full-time 12/10/2025 $197,000 - $291,000 a year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience

Job Description

Google is seeking experienced software engineers to develop next-generation technologies that enhance performance, reliability, and efficiency across its data pillar applications. The role involves optimizing software solutions and collaborating on cross-functional projects to drive improvements in large-scale systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience with performance analysis and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, and implement optimizations in software, system libraries, and distributed algorithms to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resource efficiency.
  • Leverage hardware/software co-design to unlock new performance capabilities, translating knowledge of modern server architecture into software enhancements.
  • Measure the impact of the work through benchmarking, statistical analysis, and production A/B testing to validate performance gains and demonstrate cost savings.
  • Lead investigations into performance anomalies and production incidents, performing root-cause analysis that traces issues from application reasoning down to hardware behavior.
  • Apply Machine Learning (ML) techniques to automate performance diagnostics and tuning, and architect data systems to efficiently support Machine Learning (ML) workloads from feature engineering to inference.

Benefits

  • Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.