Senior Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++, Java, or Kotlin

programming languages.

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,

and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed

systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or

hardware architecture.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with low-level and high-level networking protocols.
• Experience in the smart home, IoT, or voice assistant domain.

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.

The Google Home Infrastructure team builds the platform that powers hundreds of

millions of smart home devices. We connect speakers, displays, cameras,

thermostats, locks, sensors, and home entertainment systems with intelligence

and cloud services.

Our mission is to create a resilient, low-latency distributed backbone that

turns disconnected smart devices into a unified, proactive, and assistive

ecosystem. As homes transform from reactive voice commands to autonomous,

multi-agent AI experiences that assist families in their daily lives, our

infrastructure delivers the mission-critical distributed storage, real-time

event streaming, high-throughput authorization, device lifecycle management, and

agentic control planes that make it all possible at global scale.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for

the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches,

designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more

helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the

people inside it and the world around it.Individual pay is determined by factors

including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Scope and execute complex, zero-downtime infrastructure migrations (e.g.,

cloud platform consolidation, legacy protocol sunsets), drastically reducing

operational overhead and infrastructure costs.

• Own the architectural direction and multi-quarter technical roadmap for key

infrastructure components (e.g., storage platforms, device control planes, or

authorization backends).

• Lead the execution strategy for large-scale data store consolidations.

Migrating legacy datastores into unified distributed stores and replacing

legacy pipelines with modern event-driven architectures.

• Partner with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams, partner platforms, and

product stakeholders to drive convergence across fragmented device lifecycle

systems into a single unified protocol.

• Architect scalable, resilient authorization frameworks that uphold strict

isolation between communal home state and personal user data across high-QPS

production traffic.