Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Scalable Distributed Systems

Google; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube Infrastructure team in San Bruno, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure. The role emphasizes solving complex problems, mentoring juniors, and contributing across the full stack with a focus on distributed systems and performance.

You will write and test code, participate in design reviews, and help ensure reliability while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more languages.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software; 1 year design/architecture.
• 3 years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage knowledge.
• C++ programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews to decide amongst technologies.
• Review code with peers to ensure best practices and quality.
• Contribute to documentation and adapt content based on updates and feedback.
• Triag e product or system issues and debug/track/resolve impacts on hardware, network, or service operations.

Skills

Software development

C++

Distributed systems

Testing

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google's YouTube Infrastructure team in San Bruno, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure. The role emphasizes solving complex problems, mentoring juniors, and contributing across the full stack with a focus on distributed systems and performance.

You will write and test code, participate in design reviews, and help ensure reliability while collaborating across teams.