Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Spanner Team
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing or launching software products; 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction for Spanner Serving and modernizes its infrastructure and development workflows using AI-assisted tools while maintaining correctness and availability.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture of Spanner’s next-generation Batch I/O interface and its connections to other subsystems.
- Modernize Spanner Serving with AI-assisted development and build AI-powered tools and workflows for development, testing, verification, and incident response.
- Define AI-first engineering practices, measure their impact, and mentor engineers across Spanner.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing or launching software products.
- Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Experience innovating the development process using AI.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects; deep understanding of database engine internals, query execution or optimization, or distributed data storage.
Pay
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Spanner, AI, coding agents, Large Language Model (LLM)-based tools
AI focus
Uses coding agents and LLM-based tools to modernize Spanner Serving, reduce technical debt and operational toil, and build AI-powered workflows for code review, testing, verification, debugging, and incident response.
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