Google's Cloud Compute Infrastructure group builds the scalable foundation that powers massive workloads across Google Cloud. In the Software Engineer III, Infrastructure role, you will help shape this environment by developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, collaborating across design reviews, debugging sessions, and documentation to keep systems reliable and efficient at scale.
Responsibilities
- Write product or system development code.
- Participate in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to choose among available technologies.
- Review code from other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices, including style, testing, and efficiency.
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product updates and user feedback.
- Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve by analyzing root causes and impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience programming in C++, Python, or Go.
- 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
Technologies
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days per year, accruing 6.15 hours per pay period during the first five years
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year in Seattle), plus 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28–30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Location
Kirkland, WA (onsite)
Compensation
US base salary range: USD 147,000 - 211,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.
About the Job
Google’s Software Engineers develop next generation technologies that impact how billions connect, explore, and interact with information. Our products are designed to handle data at massive scale and extend far beyond web search. The Technical Infrastructure team keeps Google's systems running, from data centers to the platforms that power Google products, and engineers in this space are encouraged to bring fresh ideas from across information retrieval, distributed computing, networking, data storage, security, and AI. The AI and Infrastructure team is advancing what is possible by delivering AI and infrastructure at exceptional scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity for customers including Googlers, Google Cloud users, and billions of Google users worldwide. This group drives developments that enable hyperscale computing, from hardware like TPUs to software platforms such as Vertex AI and Google Global Networking, underpinning Google’s data center operations and developer ecosystems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$211,000 plus bonus, equity and benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, with individual pay influenced by location and other factors during the hiring process.
