Staff Software Engineer, Knowledge Catalog, Core Data

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Bengaluru is hiring software engineers to lead the Knowledge Catalog's hybrid semantic search infrastructure and quality evaluation platform. You will shape architecture, guide scaling for sub-second latency, and build robust pipelines for both automated and human interactions, while mentoring peers and driving cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes leadership, end-to-end delivery, and broad exposure to information retrieval, distributed systems, and AI-enabled search technologies

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Knowledge Catalog’s hybrid semantic search infrastructure.
• Architect scalable, low-latency distributed infrastructure to achieve sub-second P95 latency SLAs.
• Build a scalable search infrastructure for agents and humans.
• Foster engineering excellence and production reliability across search serving and indexing pipelines.
• Mentor and grow ICs, establishing Bengaluru site as a Center of Excellence for search infra.

Skills

Software development

Testing & deployment

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

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. Our mission is to make google's internal data discoverable for both Google employees and agentic workflows.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.

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 P95 latency Service Level Agreements (SLAs) 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 (ICs), establishing Bengaluru site as a Center of Excellence for search infra and quality use‑cases.

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