Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (C++, Distributed)

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a software engineer to develop next-generation infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. You will work on critical projects, contribute high-quality C++ code, and coordinate with multiple teams to drive technical direction.

We value leadership, versatility across full-stack problems, and the ability to ship reliable software at a massive scale. The role emphasizes software design, architecture, and collaboration with SRE teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or C.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Create solutions to sometimes ambiguous problems and take ownership of their technical and non-technical scope.
• Drive the technical direction of large projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Write highly-scalable, performant, and reliable C++ code operating in a Google-scale distributed systems environment.
• Investigate production software issues and work closely with our Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) team.

Skills

C++

Distributed systems

Software testing

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

DNS software

Job description

Google is hiring a software engineer to develop next-generation infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. You will work on critical projects, contribute high-quality C++ code, and coordinate with multiple teams to drive technical direction.

We value leadership, versatility across full-stack problems, and the ability to ship reliable software at a massive scale. The role emphasizes software design, architecture, and collaboration with SRE teams.