Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud AI, Full Stack

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus potential

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a senior software engineer for the Colab team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will shape technical direction across design, architecture, and execution, enabling scalable, secure, and high-performance notebook systems for billions of users.

You'll work with product and partner teams, mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional projects, while driving innovation in ML tooling and developer platforms within Google Cloud's AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 7 years across back-end and front-end development.
• 5 years in design, architecture, and launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Set technical goals, roadmap, and architecture for Colab.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and partner engineering teams.
• Oversee scalability, reliability, and security of Colab systems.
• Increase team velocity by adopting best engineering tools and practices.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads within Colab.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

C++

JavaScript

TypeScript

System design

Leadership

ML tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Tools

Colab

Google Cloud

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.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience designing, building, or implementing cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and developer-focused tooling.
• Experience developing and scaling high-performance developer tools, environments, or platforms.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Set the overarching technical goals, roadmap, and architectural decisions to ensure Colab continues as the premier notebook platform inside and outside Google.
• Collaborate closely with product, user experience (UX), and partner engineering teams to seamlessly align technical execution with product strategy and goals.
• Oversee the scalability, reliability, security, and overall engineering excellence of all Colab systems and infrastructure.
• Scale team velocity and performance continuously by advocating and implementing the best engineering tools and practices.
• Mentor, guide, and develop executive engineers and technical leads (TLs) actively within the Colab organization to build a strong engineering culture.

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 .