Infrastructure Software Engineer, Public Sector — TS/SCI

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

Job summary

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA seeks software engineers to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms at scale, enabling government and education customers. You will work across distributed systems, information retrieval, and data storage, delivering reliable, secure services in a rapidly evolving environment.

The role emphasizes full-stack capabilities, leadership, and the ability to adapt to changing project needs while maintaining high security and operational excellence.

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 Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Software development

Security clearance (Top Secret/SCI)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Google Public Sector in Reston, VA seeks software engineers to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms at scale, enabling government and education customers. You will work across distributed systems, information retrieval, and data storage, delivering reliable, secure services in a rapidly evolving environment.

The role emphasizes full-stack capabilities, leadership, and the ability to adapt to changing project needs while maintaining high security and operational excellence.