Software Engineer, Storage

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture. 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience in kernel and kernel drivers. Preferred qualifications: 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures and algorithms. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience with kernel drivers, operating systems, and kernel. 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. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities Optimize the kernel storage stack, linux drivers, firmware, and user space interfaces for flash to maximize performance, security, and capacity. Build software solutions to enhance storage security. Elevate end-to-end storage system performance. Develop and maintain platform storage analytics infrastructure to help monitor, troubleshoot and derive insights on the storage devices in the fleet (imagine knowing fully and in real time what all of our storage devices are doing throughout their life-cycle; more importantly, imagine knowing this at scale, and using this to make better life-cycle, design decisions). Create software tools and utilities to optimize the repairability and life-cycle of our storage devices.