Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Public Sector

Google; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer (Infrastructure) on the SovOps team to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms for the Public Sector in the United States. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable distributed systems.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 2 years in large-scale distributed systems, 1 year of programming experience, and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the lifecycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services, from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live via system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation, and push and contribute to architectural changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Programming languages

TS/SCI clearance

Go (Golang)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineer (Infrastructure) on the SovOps team to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms for the Public Sector in the United States. The role emphasizes reliability, security, and scalable distributed systems.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 2 years in large-scale distributed systems, 1 year of programming experience, and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.