Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Home Infrastructure in London. You will help design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure powering Google’s home-related products, with opportunities to guide cross-team initiatives and influence architecture at scale.

The role requires leading technical direction, mentoring engineers, and delivering robust, high-availability systems across diverse environments.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3+ years in large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities aligned with the organization's goals.
• Develop the mid-term technical direction and roadmap for the teams.
• Design, guide and vet system designs and write code to solve problems.
• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices.

Skills

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Networking & storage

Compute technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

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• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 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.

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 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.

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).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents‑to‑be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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