Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Large-Scale Systems

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube infrastructure team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and scale large distributed systems. You will own critical infrastructure components and collaborate across engineering, product, and site reliability groups to deliver high-impact solutions.

Location: San Bruno, CA, USA. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and strong C++ experience, with opportunities to mentor others and influence architectural decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

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

Testing & maintenance

Software design & architecture

Large-scale infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Google's YouTube infrastructure team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and scale large distributed systems. You will own critical infrastructure components and collaborate across engineering, product, and site reliability groups to deliver high-impact solutions.

Location: San Bruno, CA, USA. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and strong C++ experience, with opportunities to mentor others and influence architectural decisions in a fast-paced environment.