Senior Software Engineer, Virtualization at Scale

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave: 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to lead the virtualization subsystem development at Google scale, including building tooling and automation frameworks for Rust-based VMMs and guest isolation. You will ensure support across millions of production hosts and contribute to high-performance, secure infrastructure.

The role emphasizes systems programming, kernel-level expertise, and core infrastructure experience, with opportunities to work across product lines and hardware configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C, C++ or Go).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience in systems programming, kernel-level development, and virtualization architectures.
• Experience in core infrastructure (e.g., Virtual Machines, Operating Systems, Infrastructure as a Service, Networking, Storage, Security, Hypervisor).

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the virtualization subsystem (VMM, CHV) at Google scale.
• Lead the development of specialized tooling to support engineering practices within the virtualization and systems programming space.
• Design and implement automation frameworks for build, CI/CD, and qualification testing specifically tailored for Rust-based VMMs and guest isolation layers.
• Support the delivery of the virtualization layer across millions of production hosts, ensuring compatibility across various product lines and hardware configurations.
• Build out observability framework to provide transparency into VM health and I/O performance, supporting a more data-driven and efficient release process.

Skills

Languages: C/C++/Go

Kernel-level development

Virtualization architectures

System programming

Large-scale infra

Software development experience

CI/CD knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Virtualization

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to lead the virtualization subsystem development at Google scale, including building tooling and automation frameworks for Rust-based VMMs and guest isolation. You will ensure support across millions of production hosts and contribute to high-performance, secure infrastructure.

The role emphasizes systems programming, kernel-level expertise, and core infrastructure experience, with opportunities to work across product lines and hardware configurations.