Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Scalable Platforms

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

Job summary

Google’s software engineers in New York develop next-generation technologies for billions of users. You’ll work on critical projects across the full stack, joining a culture that emphasizes versatility, leadership, and problem-solving at scale.

The role focuses on building and maintaining distributed systems, with opportunities to contribute across networking, storage, and security domains, collaborating with SRE and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performance software.

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 and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Create solutions to ambiguous problems and own technical scope.
• Drive the technical direction of large projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Write highly-scalable, performant C++ code in a distributed systems environment.
• Investigate production issues and collaborate with SRE team.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Software testing

Software design

Unix/Linux

Networking

Security software

Cloud networking

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google’s software engineers in New York develop next-generation technologies for billions of users. You’ll work on critical projects across the full stack, joining a culture that emphasizes versatility, leadership, and problem-solving at scale.

The role focuses on building and maintaining distributed systems, with opportunities to contribute across networking, storage, and security domains, collaborating with SRE and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performance software.