Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer, Core Systems

Google; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Infrastructure, Core to help build the technical foundation behind its flagship products. You will work on large-scale distributed systems and mentor teammates, with in-person interviews and preferred locations including San Jose, NY, and Zürich.

The role emphasizes ownership of priorities, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance across core platforms, driving innovation and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 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++ programming

Distributed systems

Software design & architecture

Large-scale infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Infrastructure, Core to help build the technical foundation behind its flagship products. You will work on large-scale distributed systems and mentor teammates, with in-person interviews and preferred locations including San Jose, NY, and Zürich.

The role emphasizes ownership of priorities, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance across core platforms, driving innovation and reliability at scale.