Staff Software Engineer, Machine Management

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior software engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to lead high-impact projects and coach a distributed engineering team. You will align goals and timelines across teams, prioritize deliverables, and drive development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of large-scale software systems.

The role emphasizes leadership in complex architectures, collaboration with multiple disciplines, and delivering reliable, scalable solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years testing and launching software products.
• 5 years working with embedded operating systems.
• 3 years in software design and architecture.
• Experience with microcontrollers and C++.

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

Testing & Launching

Embedded OS

Software design

C++ programming

Microcontrollers

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Zephyr OS

CANbus

I2C

SPI

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with microcontrollers and C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with C/C++ Programming, Zephyr OS, CANbus and Industrial Protocols.
• Experience writing embedded drivers to control and monitor power supply units (PSUs) and rectifiers (e.g., controlling voltage margins, current sharing, and reading telemetry).
• Experience working with modern 32-bit microcontrollers (e.g., ARM Cortex-M4/M7/M33 cores) from industry-leading semiconductor companies (e.g., ST, NXP, TI).
• Knowledge of data center open standards, and OBMF-ICP or experience with similar hardware management specifications.
• Familiarity with PMBus, I2C, SPI, UART, and SMBus.

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.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.