Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, High Performance Networking
Company: Google
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $174,000 - $252,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-22
About this role
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more 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.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 4 years of experience with UNIX/Linux open source developments and communities for kernel/device drivers.
- 4 years of experience in networking, storage, systems architecture, compilers, operating systems or modeling and analysis.
- Experience in kernel device drivers.
- Passion for the following areas: performance debugging and optimization of complex workloads, design of performance tools, compiler design and code optimization, high-performance software development techniques, concurrent programming, or multi-core computer architectures.
## 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 enginee...