Senior Software Engineer, Performance, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

Google; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Performance for Platforms Infrastructure Engineering. You will write and test code, participate in design reviews, and help shape systems that scale to billions of users.

The role emphasizes performance, distributed systems, and large-scale data analysis across AI infrastructure and Google Cloud platforms. Strong coding, debugging, and collaboration are required for this mid-level position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ or Python.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year in design/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.
• Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst technologies.

Skills

C++

Python

Perf analysis

Large-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Performance, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 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. In this role, with your technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware, our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

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.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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