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Senior Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure

Google
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Los Angeles, CA, USA$174k - $252kPosted 3d ago

About the role

Google Home Infrastructure software engineer role focused on building a resilient, low-latency distributed backbone for a wide range of smart home devices and services, with opportunity to work on full-stack problems across infrastructure, storage, authorization, and device lifecycle systems.

Responsibilities

  • Scope and execute complex, zero-downtime infrastructure migrations (e.g., cloud platform consolidation, legacy protocol sunsets), drastically reducing operational overhead and infrastructure costs.
  • Own the architectural direction and multi-quarter technical roadmap for key infrastructure components (e.g., storage platforms, device control planes, or authorization backends).
  • Lead the execution strategy for large-scale data store consolidations. Migrating legacy datastores into unified distributed stores and replacing legacy pipelines with modern event-driven architectures.
  • Partner with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams, partner platforms, and product stakeholders to drive convergence across fragmented device lifecycle systems into a single unified protocol.
  • Architect scalable, resilient authorization frameworks that uphold strict isolation between communal home state and personal user data across high-QPS production traffic.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in C++, Java, or Kotlin programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Skills

Required:C++JavaKotlinSoftware architectureDistributed systems
Nice to have:Networking protocolsLeadership
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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