Senior Software Engineer, Large-Scale C++ Systems

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

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.