Senior Software Engineer, Cloud GenAI Infrastructure, Vertex AI, Model Efficiency

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is hiring a software engineer in Sunnyvale to work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure. You will design and implement code across backend and data storage, review peers, and contribute to technical documentation as product teams evolve.

The role emphasizes strong CS fundamentals, experience with big data problems, and collaboration across teams to push AI and cloud initiatives forward. In-person interviews are common in the process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field (preferred).
• Experience developing accessible technologies (preferred).
• Backend coding languages such as Go, Rust, or Java (preferred).
• Experience in ML model coding languages (e.g., Python) (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code and provide feedback for best practices.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content updates.
• Triage issues and diagnose impact on hardware, network or services.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Code review

Accessible technologies

Backend development

ML model languages

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Go (Golang)

Rust

Java

Python

JavaScript

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience in backend coding languages such as GOLang, Rust, or Java.
• Experience in ML model coding languages (e.g., Python).

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.The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud’s mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Write product or system development code.
• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .