Senior Staff AI Data Infrastructure Engineer

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Sunnyvale-based Senior Staff Software Engineer leads the design and implementation of AI-enabled data infrastructure at scale. You will own architecture for high-throughput data pipelines, unified storage, and enterprise semantic models to power GenAI-enabled agents across Google Cloud.

You will shape the technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to ensure secure, high-performance, and compliant solutions while aligning with Google's broader data analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java and Python.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing or deploying distributed data processing systems (e.g., BigQuery, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying generative AI agents or large language model (LLM) applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for AI-ready data foundations, including high-throughput processing pipelines, unified storage, and enterprise semantic models.
• Architect horizontal search and summarization agents, alongside modular frameworks and personalization capabilities that allow teams to safely onboard business logic.
• Drive systemic latency optimizations across the agent execution stack to meet strict end-to-end P50 goals for real-time queries.
• Design automated evaluation frameworks to improve agent accuracy. Establish data governance, security, and compliance primitives to power real-time analytics.
• Lead the Data and AI engineering track. Guide designs, mentor developers, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate identity management and access controls.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

AI agents

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Job description

Google's Sunnyvale-based Senior Staff Software Engineer leads the design and implementation of AI-enabled data infrastructure at scale. You will own architecture for high-throughput data pipelines, unified storage, and enterprise semantic models to power GenAI-enabled agents across Google Cloud.

You will shape the technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to ensure secure, high-performance, and compliant solutions while aligning with Google's broader data analytics