Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Cloud AI

Google; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (69 Seattle)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and manage scalable data pipelines powering Gemini Enterprise and AI initiatives. You will partner with software engineers, product managers, and data scientists to turn raw log signals into real-time metrics and actionable insights.

The role focuses on building high-performance data warehousing and governance practices to ensure data integrity, privacy, and compliance while delivering robust infrastructure for product features and AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for enterprise data flows.
• Develop high-performance data warehousing and storage systems for AI models and analytics.
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and governance to uphold privacy and security standards.
• Collaborate with SWEs, PMs, and Data Scientists to deliver robust infrastructure for new features.
• Optimize pipelines for cost, latency, and resource usage while applying best practices in data modeling and orchestration.

Skills

5 years of software development

3 years testing/maintaining/launching

1 year design and architecture

Accessible technologies experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA .

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

Our team builds the critical data infrastructure, log processing engines, and automated experimentation pipelines that power our executive dashboards and guide product strategy.

As a Senior Data Engineer on this team, you will design robust, compliant pipelines handling massive datasets and transition raw log signals into real-time metrics. You will directly influence how our customers measure their AI investment and how our engineering teams validate their feature rollouts.

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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• Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to ingest and transform enterprise data into Gemini Enterprise.
• Develop high-performance data warehousing and storage systems optimized for AI models, search capabilities, and analytics.
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and governance to uphold strict integrity, privacy, access controls, and compliance standards.
• Partner with SWEs, PMs, and Data Scientists to deliver robust infrastructure that powers new product features and AI capabilities.
• Optimize pipelines for cost, latency, and resource usage while driving best practices in data modeling, schema design, and orchestration.

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 .