Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Scale, Impact & Equity

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

Job summary

Google Inc. in New York, NY, USA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud Platforms infrastructure. The role focuses on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed infrastructure and large-scale systems with C/C++.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of C/C++ experience; preferred include advanced degrees and leadership experience. The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and high-performance software in a Google-scale environment.

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/C++ programming

Distributed systems

Software testing

Mentoring juniors

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Job description

Google Inc. in New York, NY, USA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud Platforms infrastructure. The role focuses on building, scaling, and maintaining distributed infrastructure and large-scale systems with C/C++.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of C/C++ experience; preferred include advanced degrees and leadership experience. The position emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and high-performance software in a Google-scale environment.