Senior Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer, GCE Node

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience in testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

3 years of experience with software design and architecture. 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Google Compute Engine (GCE) is the foundation of Google Cloud Platform, providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to customers worldwide. In this role, you will be responsible for innovating at scale in virtualized storage, networking, telemetry, and customer workload management. This role will have a direct impact on the continued success of GCE by ensuring scalable, and infrastructure that powers virtual machine instances and bare metal solutions.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Build innovative compute infrastructure solutions that enable business growth for various AI/ML, specialized and general purpose VMs.
• Provide long-term vision to build to provide training, interference and high computing VM families. Own end-to-end responsibility of enabling the technology to deliver VM families, ensuring their availability, reliability, and performance, working closely with partner teams to realize the vision.
• Set clear product expectations with teams and leadership individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, and efficiency).

Experience Level

Senior Level