Infrastructure Software Engineer, Search Platform

Google; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 147,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's engineers in Cambridge, MA work on next-generation infrastructure for Google Search, handling scale and complex systems across the full stack. You will drive engineering projects, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers as you help build globally accessible search technology.

The role emphasizes leadership, versatility, and solving challenging problems in distributed systems, with opportunities to contribute to product and platform enhancements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in C++.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or compute/storage hardware architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• 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).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• 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.

Skills

C++

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related

Job description

Google's engineers in Cambridge, MA work on next-generation infrastructure for Google Search, handling scale and complex systems across the full stack. You will drive engineering projects, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers as you help build globally accessible search technology.

The role emphasizes leadership, versatility, and solving challenging problems in distributed systems, with opportunities to contribute to product and platform enhancements.