Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Public Sector

Google Google · Big Tech · Reston, VA +1

Staff Software Engineer for Google Public Sector, focusing on building and securing sovereign cloud platforms. The role involves ensuring reliability and effective operation within secure environments, driving insights and new technology to improve the operational stack, and eliminating systemic toil. This position shapes critical public sector services at Google scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation and refinement.
  2. Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
  3. Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
  4. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  5. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Required

  • software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)
  • designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
  • leading projects
  • Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Nice to have

  • algorithms
  • data structures
  • complexity analysis
  • software design
  • building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • leading project teams
  • setting technical direction

What the JD emphasized

  • Active, or the ability to obtain, Top Secret/SCI security clearance.