Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Memorystore

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++ 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.
• Experience in database internals, storage systems, or database infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

About the job

Software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Products operate at massive scale and extend beyond web search, spanning information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile technologies.

You will work on a project critical to business needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as priorities evolve. The role requires versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for solving new full-stack problems.

The Technical Infrastructure team builds and maintains the architecture behind online products, including data centers, next-generation platforms, and networks. The team keeps networks running and enables fast, reliable user experiences. Cloud solutions provide enterprise-grade technology and tools that help developers build more sustainably and support organizations’ digital transformation.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback on best practices, including style guidelines, code check-in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt it based on product or program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing issue sources and their impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.