Senior
Senior SWE building Google Distributed Cloud infrastructure in Go/Kubernetes
Senior Software Engineer role on Google Distributed Cloud, Google Cloud's enterprise infrastructure product. Requires 5 years of Go, 3 years building distributed systems/networks/infrastructure, and hands-on Kubernetes/cloud experience — expect systems design and Go-specific depth in the interview.
Step into this interview
Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role
Likely format
Google's standard SWE loop: phone screen(s) with coding, followed by an onsite/virtual loop of coding, system design, and Googleyness/leadership interviews.
What this interview tests
- Go systems programming and concurrency
- Kubernetes and distributed cloud infrastructure
- Distributed systems and networking fundamentals
- Design reviews and infrastructure tradeoff decisions
- Production debugging across hardware/network/service layers
Common question themes
Deep dive on a Go-based infrastructure or distributed system you built
How have you used Kubernetes to manage scaling, failure, or multi-tenant isolation
Describe a design review where you picked between competing technical approaches
Debug a production issue that could originate at the network, hardware, or service layer
Your code review standards and how you mentor through them
Data structures/algorithms problem
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