Software Engineer III, Data Cloud, Spanner Graph Intelligence

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

$141K/yr - $202K/yr

Entry, Mid Level

Google is a leading technology company that focuses on developing next-generation technologies. The Software Engineer III will work on Spanner Graph, developing capabilities to unlock the power of relational and graph databases while supporting AI applications.

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Responsibilities

Design and develop native capabilities to extract data intelligence (Graph Algorithms, GNN) on Spanner Graph, enabling relationship-aware AI/ML, and build state-of-the-art GraphRAG solutions on Spanner Graph to help LLMs/Agentic flows with reasoning
Partner with Production Support Office (PSO), and Product Manager (PM) teams, and collaborate with internal and external customers to understand and predict graph intelligence needs, delivering end-to-end solutions along with production maintenance and support
Design, build, maintain graph intelligence capabilities on Spanner. Design, implement languages (GoogleSQL) through which users can express their graph intelligence intent
Explore, prototype, and productionize approaches to integrate graph intelligence into AI/ML systems
Drive projects from vague requirements through production deployment, directly enhancing Google’s flagship database

Qualification

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related areas
2 years of experience developing large-scale distributed software or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting
2 years of experience in C++, Java, or Go, with a focus on high-performance, low-latency code or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting
Experience with distributed databases, database internals, query processing, and query optimization

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields
Experience designing and developing database internals, query planning and execution
Experience developing graph algorithms
Experience applying Graph Neural Networks (GNN)/GraphRAG for production systems