Senior Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Google•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$174,000 - $252,000

About The Position

Google software engineers develop technologies that help billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Engineers work on projects critical to Google’s needs and may move between teams and projects as the business evolves. The role calls for versatility, leadership qualities, and enthusiasm for solving problems across the technology stack. The Google Home Infrastructure team builds the platform powering hundreds of millions of smart home devices, connecting speakers, displays, cameras, thermostats, locks, sensors, and home entertainment systems with intelligence and cloud services. Its mission is to create a resilient, low-latency distributed backbone that makes disconnected smart devices a unified, proactive, and assistive ecosystem. The infrastructure supports distributed storage, real-time event streaming, high-throughput authorization, device lifecycle management, and agentic control planes at global scale. The Google Home team develops hardware, software, and services for the home, with a mission to create a helpful home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The US compensation range is $174,000–$252,000, with a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience with software development in C++, Java, or Kotlin programming languages.
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
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.

Nice To Haves

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 with low-level and high-level networking protocols.
Experience in the smart home, IoT, or voice assistant domain.

Responsibilities

Scope and execute complex, zero-downtime infrastructure migrations, such as cloud platform consolidation and legacy protocol sunsets, to reduce operational overhead and infrastructure costs.
Own the architectural direction and multi-quarter technical roadmap for key infrastructure components, such as storage platforms, device control planes, or authorization backends.
Lead the execution strategy for large-scale data store consolidations, migrating legacy datastores into unified distributed stores and replacing legacy pipelines with modern event-driven architectures.
Partner with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams, partner platforms, and product stakeholders to converge fragmented device lifecycle systems into a single unified protocol.
Architect scalable, resilient authorization frameworks that maintain strict isolation between communal home state and personal user data across high-QPS production traffic.