Infrastructure Software Engineer, Public Sector (Top Secret)

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

Job summary

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA is seeking a Software Engineer (Infrastructure) to help build secure, scalable cloud services for government and education customers. You will work on SovOps to improve reliability and efficiency across large-scale distributed systems, while aligning with security requirements and enterprise standards.

You’ll design, implement, and operate software platforms, collaborating with cross‑functional teams and contributing to long‑term architecture to accelerate

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.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the entire 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

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

Software development

Top Secret/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA is seeking a Software Engineer (Infrastructure) to help build secure, scalable cloud services for government and education customers. You will work on SovOps to improve reliability and efficiency across large-scale distributed systems, while aligning with security requirements and enterprise standards.

You’ll design, implement, and operate software platforms, collaborating with cross‑functional teams and contributing to long‑term architecture to accelerate