Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Cloud SQL

Overview In this role, you contribute to Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s managed relational database service, focusing on reliability, observability, and product-led growth. You will collaborate across teams to review designs, improve code quality, and enhance the instance creation and integration workflows. You’ll tackle performance and scalability challenges, and help bring new features like AIStudio support to market. This is a high-impact role in a fast-growing, customer-focused cloud platform. Compensation / Benefitsbonus target 15%equitybenefits (unspecified) ResponsibilitiesParticipate in and lead design reviews to select technologiesReview others’ code to ensure best practices, quality, and testabilityContribute to documentation and educational content updated with product changesTriage and debug product/system issues, analyzing root causes and impactInfluence and implement fleet observability improvements for faster root-cause analysisContribute to product-led growth initiatives and new feature work (e.g., AIStudio integration)Help redesign core workflows, such as instance creation, to scale with adoption Key requirementsBachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience2 years of software development experience in Go, Java, Python, or C++2 years of experience building, designing, or maintaining database infrastructure or distributed database systemscollaborationproblem-solvingeffective communicationGo, Java, Python, or C++ programmingdatabase infrastructure and distributed databasesSQL (especially complex queries)