Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Chat
Google · Sunnyvale, CA
About this role
Google is hiring a staff-level Infrastructure Engineer in the software engineering function based in Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with Distributed Systems, Data Structures, GCP, LLMs. Compensation is listed at $207,000–$300,000 per year.
- Role
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Google careersGoogle Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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. In the Workspace ecosystem, you will be at the strategic epicenter for enterprise collaboration, contributing to an evolution from a traditional real-time messaging platform into an intelligent, AI-first command center, driving the transition into the Augmented Chat stage. In this role, you will be a part of the Chat Backend pillar, which owns the distributed systems and…