Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Large-Scale Systems

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, to design and deliver large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. You will write and test code, participate in design reviews, and help shape the platform across compute, storage, and networks.

This role emphasizes leadership, problem solving, and delivering reliable, scalable systems. The position requires strong software development experience and a track record of mentoring others, with collaboration across multiple

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

C++

Java

Go

Python

Testing

Distributed systems

Large-scale infra

Software design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, to design and deliver large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. You will write and test code, participate in design reviews, and help shape the platform across compute, storage, and networks.

This role emphasizes leadership, problem solving, and delivering reliable, scalable systems. The position requires strong software development experience and a track record of mentoring others, with collaboration across multiple