Software Engineer III, Looker Developer Infrastructure and Tooling

As a Software Engineer III on Google's Looker Developer Infrastructure and Tooling team, you will help build and maintain the core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that support the Looker software development lifecycle, including AI powered agent capabilities. This role combines large‑scale infrastructure work with developer productivity improvements, contributing to a culture that values collaboration, continuous learning, and practical, high‑impact engineering.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off: 20 vacation days per year, accruing with tenure
• Sick time: 40 hours per year (Seattle policy increases to 69 hours) with discretionary sick days
• Maternity leave and baby bonding support via short‑term disability and related programs (up to 30 weeks / 18 weeks)
• 13 paid holidays per year

Location and compensation

Location: Cambridge, MA onsite.

Salary range: USD 147,000 to 211,000 per year, with a target bonus of 15%, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Responsibilities

• Develop product and system software that powers Looker infrastructure
• Engage in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select among available technologies
• Review others' code to enforce best practices, including style, correctness, testability, and efficiency
• Update and expand documentation and educational content, adapting to product updates and user feedback
• Triaging issues, debugging, and resolving problems by analyzing root causes and their impact on hardware, networks, and service operations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• At least 2 years of experience developing large‑scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture
• Experience with CI/CD and build systems
• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Docker

Technologies

• Google Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Bazel
• Louhi
• Prow

About the team and role

The Looker Developer Infrastructure and Tooling team focuses on maximizing the efficiency, quality, and velocity of Looker engineering. We build and maintain the core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced tooling that power the entire software development lifecycle for Looker. As the organization scales, the team is leading the move toward Agentic Development, enabling human engineers to delegate repetitive tasks to AI powered agents. Google Cloud accelerates organizations by delivering enterprise grade solutions and tooling that support sustainable software delivery. This role sits at the intersection of scalable systems, developer productivity, and AI enabled automation, and offers opportunities to contribute across the full stack and across teams as projects evolve.