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# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Software Systems
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/staff-software-engineer-infrastructure-core-san-jose-ca-usa-58800395

## About the Role

Experteer Overview As a software engineer on the Core team, you will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and guide a distributed engineering group. You will align teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You'll design, build, test, and evolve large-scale software solutions that power Google's flagship products. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction to drive scalable, reliable systems. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers * Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of software development experience * 5 years building/maintaining large-scale aaaaaaaaaaaa
CA, distributed systems, or related compute/storage/hardware Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits

## Description

Experteer Overview As a software engineer on the Core team, you will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and guide a distributed engineering group. You will align teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You'll design, build, test, and evolve large-scale software solutions that power Google's flagship products. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic direction to drive scalable, reliable systems. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers * Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of software development experience * 5 years building/maintaining large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage/hardware Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits


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