Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platforms

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Cloud Platforms team, focusing on infrastructure development. The engineer will write and test code, participate in design reviews, review code from peers, contribute to documentation, and triage/debug system issues. The role requires experience in C++ or Go, software design, architecture, and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.

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

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership