Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer — Large-Scale Systems

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure in Chicago, IL. The role involves owning outcomes, solving ambiguous problems, and influencing stakeholders while delivering scalable infrastructure and distributed systems.

Responsibilities include guiding high-impact projects, coaching a distributed team, and ensuring clear goals and timelines across teams. This position is part of Google's Core team focusing on foundational infrastructure and scalable software platforms.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

C++ programming

Distributed systems

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure in Chicago, IL. The role involves owning outcomes, solving ambiguous problems, and influencing stakeholders while delivering scalable infrastructure and distributed systems.

Responsibilities include guiding high-impact projects, coaching a distributed team, and ensuring clear goals and timelines across teams. This position is part of Google's Core team focusing on foundational infrastructure and scalable software platforms.