Staff Software Engineer, Large-Scale Infrastructure & AI Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year, accruing

Sick Time: 40 hours/year ( Seattle 69)

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to drive technical leadership on high-impact projects across large-scale distributed systems. You will guide a distributed team, align multi-team goals, and own end-to-end software delivery with a focus on scalable infrastructure and AI-enabled platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture, design, and execution excellence, with opportunities to impact billions of users and collaborate across Google Cloud, AI, and infrastructure groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage/hardware.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 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

Software development

Distributed systems

Large-scale infrastructure

Software testing

Software design & architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to drive technical leadership on high-impact projects across large-scale distributed systems. You will guide a distributed team, align multi-team goals, and own end-to-end software delivery with a focus on scalable infrastructure and AI-enabled platforms.

The role emphasizes architecture, design, and execution excellence, with opportunities to impact billions of users and collaborate across Google Cloud, AI, and infrastructure groups.