Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cambridge, MA
Infrastructure Engineer jobs in Cambridge, Massachusetts are open across the metro, with employers like Google, Lila Sciences, and JLL hiring at every experience level. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in the C++ programming language.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 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.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Experience with Linux-based development environments, large-scale distributed systems and performance-critical applications, or working with video encoding.
- Experience in low-level engineering, such as kernel subsystems and user space driver integrations.
- Excellent system-level debugging skills.
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.
In this role, you will help power the world's largest video platform and will design and build the high-performance video processing hardware used by YouTube in Google data centers. Your work will directly enable new features for billions of users while significantly reducing the cost of transcoding at an unprecedented scale.
US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain core software that vertically integrates new hardware video encoders into the YouTube video processing pipeline.
- Collaborate with product infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and support new video features across various platforms like live streaming, video on demand (VOD), and Shorts.
- Design, implement, and validate new features and optimizations that leverage the capabilities of custom hardware for high-performance video transcoding.
- Debug and optimize production systems, investigating and resolving performance bottlenecks to improve latency, throughput, and overall efficiency at Google's data center scale.
- Perform low-level software engineering, including user space driver integrations, kernel subsystems, and other systems-level engineering.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in the C++ programming language.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 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.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Experience with Linux-based development environments, large-scale distributed systems and performance-critical applications, or working with video encoding.
- Experience in low-level engineering, such as kernel subsystems and user space driver integrations.
- Excellent system-level debugging skills.
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.
In this role, you will help power the world's largest video platform and will design and build the high-performance video processing hardware used by YouTube in Google data centers. Your work will directly enable new features for billions of users while significantly reducing the cost of transcoding at an unprecedented scale.
US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain core software that vertically integrates new hardware video encoders into the YouTube video processing pipeline.
- Collaborate with product infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and support new video features across various platforms like live streaming, video on demand (VOD), and Shorts.
- Design, implement, and validate new features and optimizations that leverage the capabilities of custom hardware for high-performance video transcoding.
- Debug and optimize production systems, investigating and resolving performance bottlenecks to improve latency, throughput, and overall efficiency at Google's data center scale.
- Perform low-level software engineering, including user space driver integrations, kernel subsystems, and other systems-level engineering.
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- Google7
- Lila Sciences4
- JLL1
- Moderna1
- Youtube1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software9
- Artificial Intelligence8
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals4
- Science & Research1
- Construction & Real Estate1
Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Cambridge: Frequently Asked Questions
How many infrastructure engineer jobs are there in Cambridge?
There are 17+ infrastructure engineer openings in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. New positions post regularly as Cambridge employers hire.
Which companies hire infrastructure engineers in Cambridge?
Cambridge infrastructure engineer roles are posted by Google, Lila Sciences, and JLL and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote infrastructure engineer jobs in Cambridge?
Yes. About 15% of infrastructure engineer openings tied to Cambridge are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in and around Cambridge.
Which industries hire the most infrastructure engineers in Cambridge?
The sectors hiring the most infrastructure engineers in Cambridge are Technology & Software, Artificial Intelligence, and Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
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