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Staff Software Engineer, Virtual Machines at Google

Seniority in posting: Advanced

Compensation

$207,000 – $300,000/yr

Location
Sunnyvale, California
Type
Full-time
Level
lead/mgmt
Posted

Description

Google is hiring a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems for its Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped Virtual Machine team. The role provides technical leadership on high-impact projects, coaches a distributed engineering team, aligns cross-team goals and timelines, and designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and enhances large-scale software solutions. The position requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of experience leading projects and designing distributed systems, and 2 years of Kubernetes experience. Preferred qualifications include advanced degrees, extensive data structures and algorithms experience, technical leadership experience, complex matrixed-organization experience, and Linux Kernel experience. Compensation is $207,000–$300,000 USD plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

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