Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Capacity and Demand

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

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale infrastructure and data-center software. You will work on distributed systems and compute/storage technologies across multiple product areas, with a focus on efficiency and reliability.

You will engage in design reviews, implement robust code, and help document and teach best practices. This role emphasizes leadership, adaptability, and cross-team collaboration within a fast-paced environment.

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, plus 1 year in design/architecture.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute/storage/hardware tech.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Lead or participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide among technologies.
• Review code produced by others and provide feedback to ensure best practices and quality.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt to updates.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/resolve by analyzing impact on hardware, network, or service operations.

Skills

Software development experience

Testing & maintenance

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (CS/related field)

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 a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience with Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, and TCP/IP.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
  

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.

This team develops software to optimize the design, planning, deployment, and decommissioning of cluster layouts for Google data centers. Our fleet consumes as much power as the entire city of San Francisco, so we're handling a number of fun, open-ended, and challenging problems to optimize rack placement, reduce our environmental impact, and save Google money.
In this role, you will drive the planning to deploy all the machine racks and network racks across our data centers. You will be responsible for efficiently deploying these resources in the optimal configuration for our customers across various product areas (YouTube, Search, Ads, etc.) at Alphabet and for all our external customers supported by Google Cloud. Additionally, you will use AI to automate rack placement at Google's data centers.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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:

• 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.