Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +2

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Cloud Compute Infrastructure team. The primary focus is on developing and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Google's AI models and global services. While the team works closely with AI development, the role itself is centered on infrastructure engineering, not direct AI/ML model development.

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

  • software development in C++, C, or Python
  • testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • software design and architecture
  • developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks
  • compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures and algorithms
  • technical leadership role
  • developing accessible technologies