Senior Platform Engineer
GoogleMountain View, CAonsite$148K–$268KApplied AIPosted 15d ago · Aug 30, 2026
Google is hiring a senior platform engineer to work on infrastructure for search, advertising, android, and the gemini model family.
What you would own
- Operate the platform that every product team deploys onto.
- Drive down incident rate and cost per unit of served traffic.
- Automate the manual work out of the deployment path.
Skills
GoLinuxObservabilityAWSGoogle CloudRustNetworkingCost optimisation
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Compensation
Research Scientist pay at Google up 12% year over year
Median posted compensation for research scientist roles moved from about $252K to $283K across 760 observed postings and reports.
Research Scientist median$283K+12%/ 12 months
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