Senior Software Engineer, Performance — Cloud Scale Equity

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

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Performance, Google Cloud Performance, in Sunnyvale, CA. The role emphasizes optimizing performance for large-scale systems, analytics, and engineering leadership across projects.

You will drive design, develop, test, and deploy high-impact software, collaborating across teams to push the boundaries of Google Cloud performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or Python.
• 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 performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.

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.

Skills

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field

Job description

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Performance, Google Cloud Performance, in Sunnyvale, CA. The role emphasizes optimizing performance for large-scale systems, analytics, and engineering leadership across projects.

You will drive design, develop, test, and deploy high-impact software, collaborating across teams to push the boundaries of Google Cloud performance and reliability.