Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Systems & Capacity Planning

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and optimize backend systems at scale. You will contribute to cloud-first infrastructure, ensure reliability, and assist with architecture decisions for large distributed services.

Role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, designing for performance, and guiding multi-year technical roadmaps while maintaining high standards of code quality and engineering excellence.

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 with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience in Backend, Cloud, Large-Scale Distributed Systems.

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

Backend systems

Cloud platforms

Large-scale distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Job description

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and optimize backend systems at scale. You will contribute to cloud-first infrastructure, ensure reliability, and assist with architecture decisions for large distributed services.

Role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, designing for performance, and guiding multi-year technical roadmaps while maintaining high standards of code quality and engineering excellence.