Senior Software Engineer, Core, Server Optimization
Company: Google
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $174,000 - $252,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-02
About this role
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in C++ programming language.
- 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 performance, large scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience with performance analysis and optimization on workloads.
- Experience with profile-driven optimizations.
- Knowledge of modern high-performance CPU architecture and micro-architecture.
## About the job
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, ...