Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Compute

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +3

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Compute. This role focuses on building and enhancing large-scale software solutions for Google's infrastructure, specifically within Google Cloud Compute. While the team works with AI models and provides platforms for AI development, the core responsibility of this role is infrastructure engineering, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role involves technical leadership, project management, and software development for systems that support AI at scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  2. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  3. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  4. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  5. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • testing
  • launching software products

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
  • data structures/algorithms
  • technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
  • complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture