Senior Staff Software Engineer - Core Data & Knowledge Catalog

Google India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,600,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Knowledge Catalog team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Core Data to lead the semantic search infrastructure and quality eval frameworks for massive-scale information discovery. You will shape architecture, drive latency targets, and coordinate cross-team efforts across Bengaluru.

You will mentor engineers, orchestrate robust indexing pipelines, and partner with product teams to deliver reliable, high-throughput search experiences for Google employees and internal workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Knowledge Catalog’s (Core) hybrid semantic search infrastructure and search quality evaluation platform.
• Architect scalable, low-latency distributed infrastructure to achieve sub-second latency Service Level Agreements across various search use-cases.
• Build a scalable search infrastructure for agents and humans.
• Foster engineering excellence, robust system design, and production reliability across all search serving and indexing pipelines.
• Mentor and grow other Individual Contributors, establishing Bengaluru site as a Center of Excellence for search infra and quality use-cases.

Skills

Distributed databases

Large-scale distributed systems

Semantic search

Search infrastructure

Mentoring ICs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Knowledge Catalog, Core Data

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• Experience in distributed databases and large-scale distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of technical leadership experience (e.g., Tech Lead/Staff Engineer) driving architectural roadmaps, system design, and cross-team project collaborations.
• Experience architecting high-throughput, low-latency search back-ends, indexing pipelines, or information retrieval (IR) platforms.

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. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. The Knowledge Catalog team owns core search infrastructure and search quality frameworks, powering the discovery of billions of assets for Google employees. The mission is to make google's internal data discoverable for both Google employees and agentic workflows. You will lead the Knowledge catalog Search pillar, focusing on Core Search and Discovery Infrastructure, Search quality and evals frameworks. The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company. You will lead the Knowledge catalog Search pillar, focusing on Core Search and Discovery Infrastructure, Search quality and evals frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Knowledge Catalog’s (Core) hybrid semantic search infrastructure and search quality evaluation platform.
• Architect scalable, low-latency distributed infrastructure to achieve sub-second latency Service Level Agreements across various search use-cases.
• Build a scalable search infrastructure for agents and humans.
• Foster engineering excellence, robust system design, and production reliability across all search serving and indexing pipelines.
• Mentor and grow other Individual Contributors, establishing Bengaluru site as a Center of Excellence for search infra and quality use-cases.

Experience Level

Senior Level