Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Abundant Code; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure to lead and shape scalable systems that power billions of users. You will guide the technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product and platform teams to deliver robust infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, hands-on coding, and cross-team coordination, with a focus on distributed systems, storage, and AI-enabled services. Visa sponsorship: check with employer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization’s goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Develop the mid-term technical direction and roadmap within the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (Nice to have)

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure Overview

Company Name: Google

Job Role: Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Qualifications: Not specified

Category: I

Job Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience designing, scaling, and operating highly available, distributed production systems.

The role

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 Health and Home organization is dedicated to creating intelligent, context-aware home environments and empowering users to live longer, healthier lives.

The Infrastructure team enables the seamless development and operation of these experiences. Our core focus is on building scalable serving and offline infrastructure, coherent internal developer platforms, easy-to-use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and secure data services. As both product areas rapidly accelerate their Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage, our team provides the critical technical infrastructure required to power the next generation of Health and Home innovation.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google’s various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user’s interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

What you'll do

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization’s goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Develop the mid-term technical direction and roadmap within the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Visa sponsorship: check with employer