Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure

Google LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

401(k) with company match

Paid time off (vacation) 20 days per年

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity Leave 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Seattle, WA, USA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure. You will work on core networking code and high-scale systems, influencing product direction and leading project teams across engineering, design, and operations.

The role emphasizes building high-performance networking devices, virtualized networking for VMs, and hardware-software optimization for diverse cloud workloads. Competitive compensation includes bonus target and equity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with Virtual Machines.

Responsibilities

• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Build high-performance networking devices and expose virtualization for VMs.
• Develop next-generation SmartNIC for data paths, RDMA offloading and QoS.
• Optimize low-level hardware and system performance for cloud workloads.

Skills

Software development

Testing

Software design & architecture

Virtual Machines

Data structures & algorithms

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, CS, or related field

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure

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Google Seattle, 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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with Virtual Machines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Every VM in the Cloud needs to connect to the world and other VM’s. Our team makes that happen by producing high performance networking devices and virtualizing the core connection between the in-guest driver and the host services and networking infrastructure.

In this role, you will work at the core of the networking code. This will allow you to make a large and unique impact on customers, partners and Google.

The customers run many different types of workloads. They range from simple websites to high performance workloads. All of these require fast and robust networking to be successful.

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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Build high-performance networking devices and expose virtualize network for VMs.
• Develop next-generation SmartNIC for data paths, RDMA offloading and QoS.
• Optimize low-level hardware and system performance for various cloud customer workloads.

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