Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

What you'll do

• Set the multi-year technical vision, architectural roadmap, and engineering strategy for backup infrastructure and partner integrations.
• Architect and build resilient, high-throughput, low-latency backend services, sync protocols, and media ingestion pipelines.
• Drive operational excellence and engineering practices, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; 3 years of software design and architecture experience.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with asynchronous, high-QPS backend microservices and RPC frameworks (e.g., gRPC), scalable database design, or collaboration with client teams or OEM partners.

Pay

$207000 - $300000 USD base salary

Tools

C++, gRPC

AI focus

The role supports Google Photos, whose mission includes helping users through personal AI, but the posting does not specify AI development responsibilities for this position.