Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Technical Infrastructure team in Bengaluru. This role focuses on developing and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers Google's products and services, including data centers, global networking, and platforms for AI model development. The engineer will write and test code, lead design reviews, contribute to documentation, and triage system issues. The position requires 5 years of software development experience, including experience with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and C++ programming.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • C
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • Ethernet switching
  • testing
  • maintaining software products
  • launching software products

Nice to have

  • Master's degree
  • PhD
  • Computer Science
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience with testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
  • 3 years of experience with Ethernet switching
  • Experience with developing software applications using the C++ and C programming language