Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Workspace

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Workspace team, focusing on infrastructure. While the team works with AI models built by Google DeepMind and aims to integrate AI into productivity tools like Gmail and Docs, the core responsibility of this role is software engineering for infrastructure, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software solutions that support these AI-enhanced products.

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
  • Go
  • Python
  • software design
  • architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • machine learning
  • compute technologies
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or machine learning, or experience with compute technologies, or hardware architecture.