Software Engineer III, Infrastructure

Google LLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Share Software Engineer III, Infrastructure to join our team responsible for Lustre deployment and performance on Google Cloud. You will develop large-scale infrastructure, optimize Lustre, and collaborate with GCP services.

The role emphasizes leadership, system design, and working across teams to deliver high-throughput storage for AI/ML workloads. Equal opportunity employer; English proficiency required; in-person interviews typical.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with open source or developer technologies.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• Experience with performance analysis and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Measure Lustre performance measurements, investigating bottlenecks, and performance improvements, collaborate with teams across GCP to unlock all of Lustre's potential.
• Work with customers on their Lustre deployment to diagnose problems and optimize performance, and help customers profile their workload, and tune it for GCP.
• 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.
• Develop Lustre features that integrate with GCP technologies, enabling customers to bring their AI/ML workloads to GCP, collaborate with partner teams like GKE, GCS, Vertex AI, GCE, etc. to optimize the GCP stack end-to-end.

Skills

Infrastructure

Distributed systems

Open source

Software development

Performance analysis

C programming

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Lustre Parallel File System

Linux kernel

GCP tooling (GKE, GCS, Vertex AI)

Job description

Share Software Engineer III, Infrastructure

Google Kirkland, WA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with open source or developer technologies.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• Experience with performance analysis and computer architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 year of experience in linux kernel programming.
• Experience with Lustre Parallel File Systems.
• Storage Performance investigations and tuning experience.
• Strong programming ability in one or more languages C; solid understanding of general data structures, and algorithms.

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, you will optimize Lustre on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and enable AI/ML customers to bring more of their training and inferencing workloads to GCP, Generative AI, and AI/ML in general, has seen a massive explosion in adoption and application. As a part of this role, you will work with Lustre, a leading parallel file system designed to scale to petabytes of data and deliver massive storage performance to thousands of GPUs for Large Language Model (LLM) training workloads that require high-throughput, low-latency access to large datasets.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Write product or system development code.
• Measure Lustre performance measurements, investigating bottlenecks, and performance improvements, collaborate with teams across GCP to unlock all of Lustre's potential.
• Work with customers on their Lustre deployment to diagnose problems and optimize performance, and help customers profile their workload, and tune it for GCP.
• 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.
• Develop Lustre features that integrate with GCP technologies, enabling customers to bring their AI/ML workloads to GCP, collaborate with partner teams like GKE, GCS, Vertex AI, GCE, etc. to optimize the GCP stack end-to-end.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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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