Staff Software Engineer, Core, Code Search

Google LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Bengaluru, India, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive critical projects on large-scale infrastructure and search systems. You will design, develop, test, and deploy scalable software and contribute across teams to improve performance and reliability.

The role requires deep experience in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and low-level languages such as C/C++. In-person interviews are common during the hiring process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• Experience with computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design).
• Experience with search and information retrieval.
• Experience with low-level systems programming languages (C++ or C).

Responsibilities

• Develop and own critical software projects within Google Core team.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance scalable software solutions.
• Collaborate across teams to build central infrastructure and product components.
• Evaluate latency, throughput, and reliability in large-scale environments.

Skills

Software development experience

Information retrieval knowledge

Low-level systems programming

Distributed systems knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, CS, or related field

Tools

C++

C

Job description

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 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.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience with computer science (e.g., data structures, algorithms, software design).
• Experience in Search and information retrieval.
• Experience with low-level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience architecting high-throughput, low-latency search, retrieval, or applied AI/ML systems.
• Experience in information retrieval and search infrastructure, including inverted or trigram indices, learning-to-rank, and real-time incremental indexing.
• Experience building retrieval and context-selection systems for LLM-powered coding agents using retrieval evaluation.
• Experience driving technical strategy and alignment across developer infrastructure, machine learning, and product teams.
• Experience exploring technical directions, rapidly prototyping, and evaluating opportunities across latency, freshness, relevance, and token efficiency.