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Senior Staff Software Engineer, NetSoft Design, Google Global Infrastructure

Google· Google Global Infrastructure
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Sunnyvale, CA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer position focusing on NetSoft Design within Google's Global Infrastructure. Responsibilities include driving long-term technical roadmaps, designing distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure, and unifying architectural standards across complex software stacks for scalable, secure, and operable systems that support Google’s global network.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the long-term technical roadmap and system architecture for the NetSoft Design ecosystem, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability across distributed network modeling, planning, and delivery systems.
  • Lead the design and evolution of highly distributed, fault-tolerant software infrastructure capable of managing exponential growth in Google’s global network topology and traffic demand.
  • Establish standards, guidelines, and unifying architectural principles across multiple complex software stacks to eliminate redundancy, simplify abstractions, and reduce systemic technical debt.
  • Apply a systemic focus to architectural decisions, optimizing for global performance, high availability, strict security boundary enforcement, and operational simplicity.

Qualifications

  • 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, and fault-tolerant geographically distributed systems.

Skills

Required:C++Distributed systems designSystem architecture

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (link provided in job description).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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