Systems Development Engineer II, AI Infrastructure
Company: Google
Location: Cupertino
Posted on: January 12, 2026
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Job Description:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or
IT-related field, or equivalent practical experience. 2 years of
experience with systems automation. 2 years of experience with
technical infrastructure (e.g., deployment, maintenance,
troubleshooting). Preferred qualifications: 3 years of experience
with systems design and implementation. About the job Systems
Development Engineering (SDE) at Google is a role where you manage
services and systems at scale. SDEs creatively put their
engineering discipline to use automating the mundane and reducing
toil. We don’t just write code to fix bugs, but emphasize the
development of tools and solutions that fix classes of problems. We
know it’s hard to control what you can’t measure – so we focus on
observability: instrumenting first, then turning data into
knowledge, and finally knowledge into action. We know that the
operational efficiency of Google systems, services, virtual compute
environments and the operating systems that power them impact the
environment, not just the bottom line. We know that working
together we can do more, and that community matters. Google brings
together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and
perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take
risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to
work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an
environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to
learn and grow. Together we engineer and build the infrastructure,
tools, access and telemetry for systems that enable orchestration
of Google-scale services. Come build things that matter. In this
role, you will have the exposure to integrated AI infrastructure
systems (GPU or TPU), from hardware to software design and workload
management, to developing large scale training and inference
workloads, and optimizing performance. The US base salary range for
this full-time position is $113,000-$161,000 bonus equity benefits.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and
additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and
relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about
the specific salary range for your preferred location during the
hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in
US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include
bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities Participate in on-call activities and manage the
systems within the domain and work with the primary responders to
help fix system issues. Troubleshoot technical issues, evaluate
technical data, and develop recommendations for systems and
services within the domain, respond to tickets/bugs within
team-defined service-level objectives (SLOs), and contribute to
systems and services in related domains through bug reports and
consultation. Work with customers on defining distributed systems
requirements, testing procedures, and proposing solutions.
Keywords: Google, Vallejo , Systems Development Engineer II, AI Infrastructure, IT / Software / Systems , Cupertino, California
