Senior Software Engineer, Envoy AI Foundations

Socket.dev; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to work on next-generation technologies, contributing to projects like Envoy, the high-performance open-source HTTP proxy. Engineers will tackle scalable, distributed systems, with opportunities to switch teams and take on leadership roles in an active OSS community.

The role emphasizes versatility, collaboration, and impact across full-stack development, data storage, security, AI, and more within Google Cloud and OSS ecosystems.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among technologies.
• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices, testability, and efficiency.
• Maintain scalability, stability, and security of Envoy for large-scale deployments and OSS community.
• Lead within the OSS Envoy community and contribute as a maintainer.

Skills

Software development

Testing/maintaining software

Software design and architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS

Tools

C++

Job description

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing applications, systems, or infrastructure using C++.

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.

Envoy is a high-performance open-source HTTP proxy written in C++. It serves as the data plane for Google front end, internal load balancing, video streaming, app engine proxies, and API Gateways. It is also the foundation for agentic networking at Google Cloud.

The team's mission is to ensure Envoy remains the HTTP proxy for all of Google, its customers, the entire GCP ecosystem, and the OSS community, while driving and solidifying its adoption as the premier proxy for AI-specific workloads, and providing strong, collaborative leadership of its open-source community.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• 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 maintaining the scalability, stability, and security of Envoy that is required by the large-scale deployment at Google and expected by our OSS community.
• Be a leader in the OSS Envoy community (e.g., provide critical code reviews, participate in discussions and provide advice, become a maintainer).