Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Spam Detection

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits package

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search QSpam team in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on building large-scale infrastructure and AI-powered detection of inorganic traffic within QLogs, impacting Search quality and user experience.

Ideal candidates have strong software development, distributed systems, and data processing expertise, plus experience with generative AI/LLMs. Typical compensation includes equity and a bonus target, with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with large-scale data processing, algorithms, and statistics.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Drive design, development, and maintenance of large-scale systems and algorithms to identify and filter spam and inorganic activity within QLogs.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve issues affecting hardware, network, or service quality.
• Review code from other developers and ensure best practices (coding standards, testing, and efficiency).
• Contribute to documentation or educational content and update it with product/program changes.
• Write and test product or system development code.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Data processing

AI tools integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or PhD preferred

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Search QSpam team in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on building large-scale infrastructure and AI-powered detection of inorganic traffic within QLogs, impacting Search quality and user experience.

Ideal candidates have strong software development, distributed systems, and data processing expertise, plus experience with generative AI/LLMs. Typical compensation includes equity and a bonus target, with comprehensive benefits.