Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more 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.

• Experience with distributed storage.
• Experience with distributed computing.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming

languages (C, C++, Python, or Go).

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

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

hardware architecture.

• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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 cutting-edge 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 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

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

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content

based on product/program updates and user feedback.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the

sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations

and quality.

• Address technical challenges across the software stack to develop the next

generation PD product to meet needs of our most demanding customer workloads

(e.g., the right combination of throughput, IOPS, latency, and cost).

• Collaborate closely with Google Compute Engine, NPI, storage, network, and

hardware teams to drive performance improvements through next generation

storage technologies.

• Set the technical strategic direction for the PD IO team including for

strategic Agentic workload projects, while mentoring and guiding other

Software Engineers in the organization.