Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

7h•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Google software engineers develop technologies that help billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. The role works on projects critical to Google, with opportunities to move between teams and projects as business needs evolve. Engineers are expected to demonstrate versatility and leadership and take on problems across the full stack. The role focuses on networking infrastructure that enables Google's AI infrastructure. It involves technical leadership on network systems, owning technical roadmaps, evaluating architectural trade-offs, mentoring engineers, and helping build high-speed network fabrics for AI. The AI and Infrastructure team delivers AI and infrastructure capabilities at scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity for Google employees, Google Cloud customers, and users worldwide. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The stated U.S. compensation is $207,000–$300,000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience programming in C++.
5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing and launching software products.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant geographically distributed systems.
Experience driving long-term technical roadmaps and architectural goals across multiple functional engineering teams, and translating ambiguous, multidimensional business requirements into engineering execution pipelines.
Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical talent while fostering engineering excellence, design reviews, and shared operational accountability.
A proven track record of building and operating planetary-scale software infrastructure, with expertise optimizing performance and reliability for algorithmic, graph-based, or highly data-intensive domains.
Exceptional communication, negotiation, and mediation skills, including the ability to act as a technical authority and align executives, peer directors, and engineering teams around global optimizations.

Responsibilities

Find and understand end-to-end network delivery bottlenecks, prototype solutions that deliver step-function velocity gains, and bring them into production.
Provide technical leadership and influence the team's direction.
Define quantifiable metrics for engineering success and ensure high standards for quality and operability across multiple connected teams.