Senior Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure
Los Angeles, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of software development; 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year in software design and architecture; 3 years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and lead infrastructure for Google Home, including distributed storage, device control, authorization, and event-streaming systems at global scale.
What you'll do
- Execute zero-downtime infrastructure migrations and reduce operational overhead and costs.
- Set architectural direction and lead data-store consolidations and modernization of event-driven pipelines.
- Unify device lifecycle systems and design scalable authorization that isolates shared home state from personal user data.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software development experience in C++, Java, or Kotlin.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, plus 1 year in software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field; 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of technical leadership experience; networking protocol experience; or experience in smart home, IoT, or voice assistant domain.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, Java, Kotlin
AI focus
Infrastructure supporting autonomous, multi-agent AI experiences, including agentic control planes.
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