Senior Performance Engineer for Large-Scale Systems

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is looking for software engineers who will work on projects critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as the company grows. You will help build scalable systems, work across AI, infrastructure, and full‑stack delivery, and own features end‑to‑end.

We value leadership, versatility, and the ability to tackle new problems across the tech stack while delivering reliable, high‑quality software to billions of users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or Python.
• 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 performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.

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++

Python

Testing

Software design

Architecture

Performance debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is looking for software engineers who will work on projects critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as the company grows. You will help build scalable systems, work across AI, infrastructure, and full‑stack delivery, and own features end‑to‑end.

We value leadership, versatility, and the ability to tackle new problems across the tech stack while delivering reliable, high‑quality software to billions of users worldwide.