senior software engineering Infrastructure Engineer ic · Posted Jan 16, 2026
$174,000 – $252,000
USD per year

About this role

Google is hiring a senior-level Infrastructure Engineer in the software engineering function based in Kirkland, WA | Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, C, GCP, Distributed Systems. Compensation is listed at $174,000–$252,000 per year.

Role
Infrastructure Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Kirkland, WA | Sunnyvale, CA
Posted
Jan 16, 2026
AI Summary
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Google develops and maintains large-scale distributed systems, data centers, and networking infrastructure. Requires expertise in system design, distributed computing, and infrastructure technologies. Work spans full-stack development with opportunities to lead projects across Google's AI and infrastructure platforms.

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Job description

from Google careers

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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