Senior Cloud VM & Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring software engineers to build and optimize virtual machines for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). The role focuses on distributed systems, low-level virtualization, and large-scale infrastructure across air-gapped and connected environments.

You will work with Go, C, Kubernetes, KVM, QEMU, and Linux internals to deliver secure, high-performance VM products and solve complex networking and storage challenges. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in GoLang.
• 5 years of experience with network architecture.
• Experience with distributed computing, distributed processing and systems infrastructure.
• Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) or Linux internals/kernel interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Develop virtual machines for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), including air-gapped, connected, and software-only products, utilizing a background in distributed systems and machine virtualization technologies.
• Debug testing platform issues to run secure, stable, and demanding customer workloads.
• Build and debug a virtual machine (VM) cloud product leveraging Kubernetes, QEMU, KubeVirt, KVM, Go, C, Unix shell scripting, and Linux internals, with exposure to low-level networking, compute, storage, and GPUs.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed computing

Network architecture

Linux internals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

QEMU/KVM

Virtualization

Job description

Google in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring software engineers to build and optimize virtual machines for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). The role focuses on distributed systems, low-level virtualization, and large-scale infrastructure across air-gapped and connected environments.

You will work with Go, C, Kubernetes, KVM, QEMU, and Linux internals to deliver secure, high-performance VM products and solve complex networking and storage challenges. Competitive compensation is offered.