Applied AI Software Engineer, Data Engineering Agent

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a software engineer to write product or system development code and contribute to scalable infrastructure.

You will participate in design reviews, review others' code for quality, and contribute to documentation and educational content as the product evolves.

Responsibilities include triaging issues across hardware, network, and services, debugging, and ensuring performance and reliability in distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience with Backend, Distributed Systems, ML Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Backend development

ML infrastructure familiarity

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Jupyter

AI Platform

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies or storage.
• Experience with the following: Backend, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning Infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, or Python.
• Experience with Generative AI Agent, AI Platform, Machine Learning, or Intelligent Agent.
• Experience using collaborative notebook-based workflows (e.g. Jupyter) for prototyping and knowledge sharing.
• Expertise in AI/ML product and platform development, quality evaluation framework and improvement.
• Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an excellent understanding of enterprise workloads.

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.

We are part of Data Cloud where we are responsible for developing agentic ELT/ETL capabilities to orchestrate and manage data processing end-to-end. Our mission is to accelerate and democratize our customers’ journey to digital insights and AI. The Data Engineering Agent team's mission is to democratize data engineering expertise, making it accessible to every data worker. In this role, you will be working on building agent harness, reasoning engine, skills, evals, agent APIs, Gemini integrations and evaluation-framework for Data Engineering Agents. You will have the opportunity to work with BigQuery, Data Integration, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Analytics BI, GCP Titan/Gemini, Vertex AI and other GCP services and work across domains of machine learning platforms and algorithms, distributed systems among others.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.