Senior Staff Software Engineer, NetSoft Design, Google Global Infrastructure

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to architect and lead large-scale distributed systems, translating complex requirements into scalable pipelines and driving long-term technical roadmaps across multiple teams. The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and scalable infrastructure for Google’s global services and data-center ecosystems.

Ideal candidates demonstrate leadership across engineering lines, ability to simplify legacy infrastructure, and a track record of building and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience programming in C++.
• 5+ years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale, fault-tolerant geographically distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-term technical roadmap and system architecture for distributed design ecosystems.
• Lead design and evolution of highly distributed, fault-tolerant software infrastructure.
• Establish standards and principles across multiple software stacks to reduce redundancy and technical debt.
• Apply systemic focus to architectural decisions for global performance, security, and operational simplicity.

Skills

C++ programming

Design & architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale, and fault-tolerant geographically distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Extensive experience coaching, mentoring, and developing executive technical talent, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, design reviews, and shared operational accountability.
• Strong experience driving long-term technical roadmaps and architectural goal across multiple functional engineering teams, converting highly ambiguous, multi-dimensional business requirements into concrete engineering execution pipelines.
• Proven track record of building and operating planetary-scale software infrastructure, with deep expertise in optimizing performance and reliability for algorithmic, graph-based, or highly data-intensive domains.

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.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer - Uber TL who has successfully orchestrated the architecture of large-scale distributed systems at a planetary scale. The ideal applicant has experience solving heavily algorithmic or highly data-intensive problems, leading across multiple functional engineering lines, and simplifying deeply complex legacy infrastructure into modern, scalable automation pipelines.

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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the long-term technical roadmap and system architecture for the NetSoft Design ecosystem, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed network modeling, planning, and delivery systems.
• Lead the design and evolution of highly distributed, fault-tolerant software infrastructure capable of managing exponential growth in Google’s global network topology and traffic demand.
• Establish standards, guidelines, and unifying architectural principles across multiple complex software stacks to eliminate redundancy, simplify abstractions, and reduce systemic technical debt.
• Apply a systemic focus to architectural decisions, optimizing for global performance, high availability, strict security boundary enforcement, and operational simplicity.

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