Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Data Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Google Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure AI Agent leads the design of scalable data foundations and advanced GenAI capabilities across Google Cloud Enterprise workloads.

You will own technical strategy, architecture, and implementation, coordinating across teams to deliver high-throughput pipelines, semantic models, and secure AI agents. Strong leadership and hands-on delivery are essential.

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

Architecture

Generative AI

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Job description

Google Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure AI Agent leads the design of scalable data foundations and advanced GenAI capabilities across Google Cloud Enterprise workloads.

You will own technical strategy, architecture, and implementation, coordinating across teams to deliver high-throughput pipelines, semantic models, and secure AI agents. Strong leadership and hands-on delivery are essential.