Senior Software Engineer, Home Infrastructure, Frontend and Protocols

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Minimum qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience with software development in C++, Java or Kotlin programming languages. 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture. Preferred qualifications Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. Experience with low-level and high-level networking protocols. Experience in the smart home, IoT, or voice assistant domain. 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. The Google Home Front Ends and Protocols team is responsible for bridging 100M+ smart home devices with LLM-powered services in the cloud. Our scope includes smart speakers, displays, cameras, doorbells, locks, thermostats, and CO/smoke detectors made by Google Nest and third-party partners. By managing long-lived network connections and bidi data streams, distributing requests among backend orchestration and data systems, and delivering high-performance protocol translation layers, we enable seamless, low-latency, and reliable AI experiences across diverse input modalities (voice, touch, video). As the product landscape evolves rapidly toward more complex and conversational user journeys, we continually modernize and consolidate our front ends while deprecating older protocols. The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Responsibilities Learn more about benefits at Google. Re-evaluate device connectivity services in light of changing requirements and expanding third‑party landscape. Support the existing production infrastructure by participating in an on-call rotation, capacity planning, and onboarding new devices. Migrate traffic to newer protocols capable of handling the latest conversational user journeys. Deprecate and reduce the footprints of legacy protocols/services and reduce technical overlap to make existing services easier to own. Implement and leverage AI capabilities in performing large infrastructure migrations and refactoring. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form. #J-18808-Ljbffr Google