United States Today $150k – $175k
Google Cloud Linux Engineer Jobs
Google Cloud Platform is built on the same infrastructure that runs Google Search, YouTube, and Gmail, and almost all of it runs Linux. GCP Linux engineers work across Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, and Anthos, combining deep Linux systems knowledge with Google-scale infrastructure automation.
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Sofia, Bulgaria Today Not disclosed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Today Not disclosed
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Remote, United States Today Not disclosed
Remote, United States Today $160k – $180k
Santiago, Chile Yesterday Not disclosed
Pangyo, Gyeonggi, South Korea Yesterday Not disclosed
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel Yesterday Not disclosed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Yesterday Not disclosed
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Yesterday Not disclosed
Santa Clara, California, United States Yesterday $289k – $340k
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Remote, United States Yesterday $165k – $200k
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Yesterday Not disclosed
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2d ago Not disclosed
Sunnyvale, California, United States 2d ago Not disclosed
Southwest United States 2d ago $178k – $182k
Colombia 2d ago Not disclosed
Remote, United States 2d ago $160k – $160k
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Bellevue, Washington, United States 2d ago $187k – $220k
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2d ago Not disclosed
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. GCP Compute Engine VMs, GKE nodes, Cloud Run containers, and Dataflow workers all run on Linux. Engineers working with GCP are expected to be comfortable with Linux administration, shell scripting, and container tooling.
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GCP offers first-party Container-Optimised OS (based on Chromium OS/Gentoo, optimised for containers), Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, and Rocky Linux images on Compute Engine. Container-Optimised OS is the default for GKE nodes and is hardened for production workloads.
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Core services include Compute Engine (VMs), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run (serverless containers), Cloud Build (CI/CD), Artifact Registry, and Cloud Storage. Infrastructure engineers also work with VPC networking, IAM, and Cloud Monitoring/Logging (formerly Stackdriver).
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Yes: the Google Cloud Terraform provider is one of the most widely used, covering virtually every GCP resource. Most GCP infrastructure engineering roles expect proficiency with Terraform or Pulumi for managing cloud resources as code.