Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer — Scale & Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits (401(k) with match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale infrastructure across distributed systems and storage, coordinating with Compute Engine, storage, and hardware teams. You will help lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers.

The position emphasizes in-person interviews and a comprehensive benefits package, including health, retirement, time off, and equity. English proficiency and collaboration across global teams are essential.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Address technical challenges across the software stack to develop the next generation PD product to meet needs of our most demanding customer workloads (e.g., the right combination of throughput, IOPS, latency, and cost).
• Collaborate closely with Google Compute Engine, NPI, storage, network, and hardware teams to drive performance improvements through next generation storage technologies.
• Set the technical strategic direction for the PD IO team including for strategic Agentic workload projects, while mentoring and guiding other Software Engineers in the organization.

Skills

Programming languages

Software development

Distributed systems

Compute/storage architecture

Distributed computing

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale infrastructure across distributed systems and storage, coordinating with Compute Engine, storage, and hardware teams. You will help lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers.

The position emphasizes in-person interviews and a comprehensive benefits package, including health, retirement, time off, and equity. English proficiency and collaboration across global teams are essential.