Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Public Sector

Company: Google
Location: Reston
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

info_outline X Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information. Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages. 2 years of experience leading projects. 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance, and the willingness to undergo a polygraph. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field. 3 years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design. 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. 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 manage information at a 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. In this role, you will be a part of a major engineering-driven transformation for building and securing sovereign cloud platforms. You will ensure our systems deliver reliability and operate effectively within secure environments. You will use your experience running distributed systems to drive insights and new technology that improves the reliability, efficiency, and simplicity of operational stack, working to eliminate systemic toil and enforcing long-term architectural excellence. You will shape the future of critical public sector services and solve problems at Google scale. Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Own the entire life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception and design, through to deployment, operation, and refinement. Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews. Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

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