Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platforms

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s software engineers in New York develop next-generation technologies for billions of users. You’ll work on critical projects across the full stack, joining a culture that emphasizes versatility, leadership, and problem-solving at scale.

The role focuses on building and maintaining distributed systems, with opportunities to contribute across networking, storage, and security domains, collaborating with SRE and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-performance software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or C.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Create solutions to ambiguous problems and own technical scope.
• Drive the technical direction of large projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Write highly-scalable, performant C++ code in a distributed systems environment.
• Investigate production issues and collaborate with SRE team.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Software testing

Software design

Unix/Linux

Networking

Security software

Cloud networking

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or C.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 2 years of Cloud Networking experience.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking, developing large software systems or security software development.
• Prior experience developing DNS software but not a requirement.

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.

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.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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:

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Create solutions to sometimes ambiguous problems and take ownership of their technical and non-technical scope.
• Drive the technical direction of large projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Write highly-scalable, performant, and reliable C++ code operating in a Google-scale distributed systems environment.
• Investigate production software issues and work closely with our Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) team.