Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +2

Google is seeking Senior Software Engineers for its Technical Infrastructure team, focusing on developing and maintaining the core systems that power Google's products and Google Cloud. The role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from peers, contributing to documentation, and debugging system issues. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 5 years of programming in Python or Go, 3 years in software testing/launching, and 3 years in large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Preferred qualifications include AI algorithms and Generative AI Agents experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst 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

  • Python
  • Go
  • software testing
  • software maintenance
  • software launching
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • AI algorithms
  • Generative AI Agents
  • technical leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience programming in Python or Go
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
  • 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
  • 3 years of experience with AI algorithms
  • 2 years of experience with Generative AI Agents