Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Public Sector
Google· Public Sector Engineering
Reston, VA, USA$147k - $210kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Software engineer role focused on building and securing sovereign cloud platforms for Google Public Sector, delivering reliable, scalable distributed systems in secure environments.
Responsibilities
- Own the entire life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
- Scale systems sustainably through automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.
Skills
Required:Distributed systems design and analysisProgramming
Benefits
- Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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