Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Google Cloud NetInfra

About the Position

Software Engineer III, Infrastructure, Google Cloud NetInfra

Mid • On-site

Madison, WI

Software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Products handle information at massive scale and extend beyond web search.

As a software engineer, you will work on a project critical to business needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as the business grows and evolves. Engineers are expected to be versatile, demonstrate leadership, and take on new full-stack problems.

The Technical Infrastructure team builds the architecture behind online user experiences. Its work includes developing and maintaining data centers, building next-generation platforms, and keeping networks running to provide users with a fast, reliable experience.

The AI and Infrastructure team delivers AI and infrastructure at scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity for internal teams, cloud customers, and users worldwide. Teams support AI-model development, global computing services, and developer platforms, with work spanning software and hardware, including TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, global networking, data center operations, and systems research.

Responsibilities

• Write 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 to ensure best practices, including style guidelines, code check-in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience programming in C++, Python, or Go.
• 2 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks; or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms in an academic or industry setting.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Proficiency in code and system health, diagnosis and resolution, and software test engineering.

About the Company

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.