senior Software Engineer ic · Posted May 19, 2026
$174,000 – $252,000
USD per year

About this role

Google is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Kirkland, WA. The posting calls out experience with Java, C, Distributed Systems, Data Structures. Compensation is listed at $174,000–$252,000 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Kirkland, WA
Posted
May 19, 2026

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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.

Spanner is a globally distributed relational database service that is widely used by most of Google’s products and services. Join the Spanner Query team in our continuous journey of improving performance and efficiency of data access at global scale.

In this role you will have an opportunity to directly influence Spanner query execution performance and efficiency, contribute to technologies like Columnar Engine and Semantic Search.
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