
Software Engineer III, Infrastructure
Seattle, WAJob$147–210K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Google seeks a Software Engineer III, Infrastructure to develop systems and help partner teams adopt Rust. The engineer will collaborate with partner teams to deliver production-ready Rust, teach advanced Rust practices, and support safe migration, rollout, debugging, and operations. The role requires software development experience, Rust systems programming, and familiarity with large C++ codebases, operating systems, concurrency, memory management, and networking.
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Software Engineer III, Infrastructure
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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
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Experience in Rust for systems programming and experience reading and reasoning about large C++ codebases.
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Experience in operating systems, concurrency, memory management, and networking.
Preferred qualifications:
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2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
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Experience developing accessible technologies.
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Experience migrating C or C++ code to Rust, or with C++/Rust interoperability.
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Experience using AI coding agents for substantial engineering work.
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Contributions to the Rust ecosystem, such as open source crates, talks, or workshops.
About the job
Google 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.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Write product or system development code.
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Embed with a partner team to learn its system, build working relationships, and co-design and deliver a first path to production for Rust.
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Teach advanced Rust development through pair programming, code review, and workshops until partner engineers write, review, and advocate Rust independently.
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Help partner teams verify and safely roll out migrated code, and prepare them to debug and operate Rust in production.
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How this job compares
Set against the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$147–210K/yr
- Washington median$144–215K/yr1,929 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,980 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,137 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 41,311 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,552 postings).
- Education
- 14,305 of the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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