Infrastructure Software Engineer — Sovereign Cloud (Public Sector)

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

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks software engineers to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms, delivering reliable large-scale systems for government and education. You will shape architecture, work across full-stack teams, and navigate secure environments with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to deployment, with opportunities to influence critical public sector services at Google scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience 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

• 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

System analysis

Software development

Leadership experience

Security clearance TS/SCI with polylog

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Job description

Google Public Sector seeks software engineers to build and secure sovereign cloud platforms, delivering reliable large-scale systems for government and education. You will shape architecture, work across full-stack teams, and navigate secure environments with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to deployment, with opportunities to influence critical public sector services at Google scale.