Senior Backend Engineer for AI Colab & Cloud Infrastructure

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off – 20 days

Sick time – 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Backend Staff Software Engineer for Consumer Colab within Cloud AI. You will help build and scale AI-centric runtimes and infrastructure to support data science workloads and new Colab features, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Expect ownership of complex systems, leadership across projects, and contributions to the next generation of AI tools that power partner platforms and internal workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in a modern language (C++, Golang, Rust).
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure to access data science runtimes to power runtimes as an AI tool compatible with common agents and works well with our infra - payments, auth, security, abuse, public api, cli, mcp etc.

Skills

C++

Golang

Rust

Software testing

Distributed systems

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Notebook products

Job description

Google in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Backend Staff Software Engineer for Consumer Colab within Cloud AI. You will help build and scale AI-centric runtimes and infrastructure to support data science workloads and new Colab features, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Expect ownership of complex systems, leadership across projects, and contributions to the next generation of AI tools that power partner platforms and internal workloads.