Cloud Infra Engineer III — Linux Kernel & Systems

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a mid-level software engineer to help build a performant node management agent for Google Cloud. You will work with the Linux kernel, cluster management software, and hardware platforms to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and contributions across full-stack environments within a fast-moving, hyperscale setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• Experience in low-level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
• Experience working on the Linux Kernel.

Responsibilities

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• 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.
• Designing, implementing, and analyzing low-level computer systems and their interactions with the Linux kernel and hardware.
• Collaborating with partner teams as well as users across Google e.g., cluster management teams, ML teams, hardware platform teams, SRE teams, Google Cloud.

Skills

C++

Linux kernel

Distributed systems

Large-scale infra

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Google is seeking a mid-level software engineer to help build a performant node management agent for Google Cloud. You will work with the Linux kernel, cluster management software, and hardware platforms to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and contributions across full-stack environments within a fast-moving, hyperscale setting.