Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); 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) match

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to advance the virtualization stack at scale, focusing on Rust-based VMMs, guest isolation, and enterprise-grade reliability. You will lead design and implementation across CI/CD, tooling, and automation while supporting millions of production hosts and diverse hardware configurations.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to push performance, security, and efficiency, with opportunities to influence the virtualization layer and infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++ or Go).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience in systems programming, kernel-level development, and virtualization architectures.
• Experience in core infrastructure (e.g., Virtual Machines, Operating Systems, Infrastructure as a Service, Networking, Storage, Security, Hypervisor).

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the virtualization subsystem (VMM, CHV) at Google scale.
• Lead the development of specialized tooling to support engineering practices within the virtualization and systems programming space.
• Design and implement automation frameworks for build, CI/CD, and qualification testing specifically tailored for Rust-based VMMs and guest isolation layers.
• Support the delivery of the virtualization layer across millions of production hosts, ensuring compatibility across various product lines and hardware configurations.
• Build out observability framework to provide transparency into VM health and I/O performance, supporting a more data-driven and efficient release process.

Job description

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

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.

Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++ or Go).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience in systems programming, kernel-level development, and virtualization architectures.
• Experience in core infrastructure (e.g., Virtual Machines, Operating Systems, Infrastructure as a Service, Networking, Storage, Security, Hypervisor).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with virtualization.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design, or in Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance and application issues.
• Experience in production infrastructure, and working in both engineering and operational environments: this team has one foot in each, and the successful individual will be able to bridge that divide.
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices.
• Ability to take on challenges that bridge complex stakeholder contexts and take concerted, long-term goal and investment.
• Excellent communication skills.

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. Engineering the virtualization layer at Google scale offers the unique challenge of building highly secure, memory-safe infrastructure for one of the world's largest distributed fleets. In this role, you will lead the evolution of Rust-based VMMs and IOMMU subsystems to deliver industry-leading isolation, performance, and reliability. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

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• Lead the development of the virtualization subsystem (VMM, CHV) at Google scale.
• Lead the development of specialized tooling to support engineering practices within the virtualization and systems programming space.
• Design and implement automation frameworks for build, CI/CD, and qualification testing specifically tailored for Rust-based VMMs and guest isolation layers.
• Support the delivery of the virtualization layer across millions of production hosts, ensuring compatibility across various product lines and hardware configurations.
• Build out observability framework to provide transparency into VM health and I/O performance, supporting a more data-driven and efficient release process.

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.