Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, GDC VM Management

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Bonus target

Benefits package

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA invites a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement infrastructure for Google Distributed Cloud VM management. You will work on virtualization, distributed systems, and low-level networking, contributing to air-gapped and software-only VM solutions.

Responsibilities include building, debugging, and optimizing VM platforms with Go, C, Kubernetes, QEMU/KVM, and Linux internals, while collaborating across teams to deliver secure, scalable cloud capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of Go software development and network architecture experience.
• Experience with distributed computing and systems infrastructure.
• Experience with container tech (Docker/Kubernetes) or Linux internals.

Responsibilities

• Develop VMs for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), including air-gapped and connected products.
• Debug testing platforms to run secure, demanding customer workloads.
• Build and debug a VM cloud product using Kubernetes, QEMU, KubeVirt, KVM, Go, C, Unix shell scripting, and Linux internals.

Skills

Go

Network architecture

Distributed computing

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux internals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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

Tools

QEMU/KVM

KubeVirt

Go

C

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, GDC VM Management

Google, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Go programming language.
• 5 years of experience with network architecture.
• Experience with distributed computing, distributed processing, and systems infrastructure.
• Experience working with container technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) or Linux internals/kernel interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with operating systems.
• Experience working with Virtualization, Virtual Machines, Hypervisors (QEMU/KVM).
• Solid understanding of networking, network performance, and network configuration.
• Strong C programming and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop virtual machines for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), including air-gapped, connected, and software-only products, utilizing a background in distributed systems and machine virtualization technologies.
• Debug testing platform issues to run secure, stable, and demanding customer workloads.
• Build and debug a virtual machine (VM) cloud product leveraging Kubernetes, QEMU, KubeVirt, KVM, Go, C, Unix shell scripting, and Linux internals, with exposure to low-level networking, compute, storage, and GPUs.

US: $174,000 - $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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