Staff Software Engineer - Vector Search & Scale

Google; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 492,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's software engineers build next‑generation technologies used by billions. We welcome ideas from information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI and more.

You will own critical projects with opportunities to switch teams as we grow. Compensation includes a PLN 480k–492k salary plus a 20% bonus target and equity, with pay decisions based on skills, experience and education.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution and scoping of highly complex, ambiguous projects to systematically unblock core product limitations.
• Drive the physical design and implementation decisions that ensure the backend system performs at scale.
• Build solutions that are flexible enough to offer internal tooling capabilities to consuming products, while reliably managing massive query volumes.
• Maintain a strong, direct presence by contributing to critical, code paths, authoring comprehensive technical designs, and performing code reviews.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in cost-performance, query latency, and throughput to keep latency curves flat as datasets grow.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

8 years exp

Infra & distributed systems

Software testing & launch

Software design & architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Cloud's software engineers build next‑generation technologies used by billions. We welcome ideas from information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI and more.

You will own critical projects with opportunities to switch teams as we grow. Compensation includes a PLN 480k–492k salary plus a 20% bonus target and equity, with pay decisions based on skills, experience and education.