Software Engineer, Parallel File Systems, AI/ML Storage

Location: Seattle, WA onsite. Salary: USD 147,000 - 211,000 per year. Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. Minimum experience: 1 year. Google offers a broad benefits package designed to support you and your family as you work on AI and cloud storage innovations.

Benefits

• 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

About the role

As a Software Engineer on the AI/ML Storage and Parallel File Systems team, you will help shape the next generation of cloud storage designed for extreme-scale, data-intensive workloads. The role emphasizes APIs, distributed systems, and performance optimization to support large-scale AI and data workflows. The service targets throughput up to 10 TB per second and aims to deliver industry-leading performance in real time.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch application programming interfaces for file systems
• Design and implement distributed systems to deliver file systems at multi-petabyte scale
• Develop file system technologies for data protection features like snapshots, backups, and security
• Investigate bottlenecks, deliver performance improvements, and build customer-facing tools to achieve performance for specific scenarios
• Implement optimizations to reduce cost

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience in programming with Golang, Java or C++
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or storage systems
• 2 years of software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting

Technologies

• Golang
• Java
• C++