Senior Staff Software Engineer, NetSoft Design, Google Global Infrastructure
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years programming in C++; 5 years in design and architecture and testing/launching software products.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and long-term technical direction of Google’s NetSoft Design systems for modeling, planning, and delivering its global network.
What you'll do
- Drive the technical roadmap and architecture for distributed network systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead development of distributed, fault-tolerant infrastructure to support growth in Google’s network topology and traffic demand.
- Set architectural standards across software stacks to simplify systems, reduce redundancy and technical debt, and improve performance, security, and operational simplicity.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
- Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale, fault-tolerant geographically distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience coaching and mentoring technical talent, driving technical roadmaps across teams, and building planetary-scale infrastructure.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
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