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Staff Software Engineer, Qualification Systems

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Sunnyvale, CAJob$207–300K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its Technical Infrastructure team, which builds and maintains data centers and platforms supporting Google products. The engineer will work on projects critical to Google’s needs, with opportunities to move between teams and projects. The role calls for deep domain expertise, technical leadership, and experience developing software and large-scale infrastructure.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software DevelopmentUnit TestingInfrastructureDistributed ComputingSoftware DesignArchitectural DesignVirtualizationLeadershipSoftware TestingSoftware LaunchingInfrastructure DevelopmentDistributed SystemsNetwork DevelopmentCompute TechnologiesStorage TechnologiesHardware ArchitectureLarge-Scale InfrastructureSoftware ArchitectureKernel-Based Virtual Machines

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Software Development Experience5 Years Testing and Launching Software Products5 Years Infrastructure or Systems Experience5 Years Large-Scale Infrastructure Experience3 Years Software Design and Architecture ExperienceMaster's or PhD in Related Field3 Years Kernel-Based Virtualization ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.

  • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.

  • 5 years of experience building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure.

  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience with kernel-based virtual machines and virtualization.

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.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.

  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.

  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.

  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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How this job compares

Set against the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,793 salary ranges
  • US median$135–218K/yr33,367 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 9,712 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 42,008 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,212 postings).
Education
13,955 of the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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