Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Software engineer role focused on developing and maintaining the technical infrastructure that powers Google's products, including Google Cloud. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. Requires experience in programming languages like C++, Java, or Python, and experience with large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks.

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

  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks