Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Interconnect

Google; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring software engineers to develop next-generation technologies at scale in the United States. The role emphasizes distributed systems design, collaboration across teams, and engineering excellence.

Individual pay is determined by factors including skills, experience, and education. US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits. Google emphasizes equal opportunity employment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in one or more of Go, Python, C++, or Java.
• 3 years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience managing the design and implementation of solutions for technical problems.

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

Go/Python/C++/Java programming

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Distributed systems design

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C++, or Java.
• 3 years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience managing the design and implementation of solutions for technical problems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with network engineering, software-defined networking (SDN), or network control planes and protocols (e.g., BGP, TCP/IP, MPLS).
• Experience with system automation, automated testing, or continuous deployment pipelines in a production environment.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving complex, systemic troubleshooting issues in distributed control plane systems.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical designs and collaborate effectively with adjacent engineering, product, and SRE teams.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .