Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +3

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team. This role focuses on developing and enhancing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and networks that support Google's AI models and services. 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++, Python, or Go, and a strong background in 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++
  • Python
  • Go
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • Master's degree
  • PhD
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience programming in C++, Python, or Go
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 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