Senior Software Engineer, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Google Cloud to develop and maintain reliable and stable virtual and physical environments supporting Google Cloud development and release workflows. This role involves building tools, infrastructure, and monitoring systems, partnering with engineering teams, and integrating platforms with CI/CD pipelines. The position requires strong software development experience, technical leadership, and familiarity with distributed systems and cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the technical direction and strategy for providing and maintaining reliable and stable virtual and physical environments that support Google Cloud development and release workflows. This includes building tools, infrastructure, monitoring systems, and processes for environment and user autonomy, as well as maintaining Operable Components quality deployed to these environments.
  2. Partner with engineering teams to ensure the quality of Operable Components rolled out to the environments.
  3. Code and debug to develop tools for working within these environments. This includes OC rollout/rollback, test execution, result reporting, and health monitoring.
  4. Integrate the platform/test environment with CI/CD.
  5. Partner with the team to align infrastructure roadmaps and strategies with stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining distributed systems software.
  • Experience leading an engineering team to deliver a large scale software project.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly private cloud.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes development (i.e., Kubernetes Controllers, CRDs, etc).
  • Ability to navigate open-ended technical challenges, and make proper tradeoffs.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment with cross-functional stakeholders.