Software Engineer, Agent Cloud Rate Limiting

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA is hiring a Software Engineer for the Agent Cloud Rate Limiting team. You will contribute to large-scale infrastructure, develop software, and help design rate-limiting components critical to agent communications.

The role requires Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, 2 years of software development experience (or 1 year with an advanced degree), and experience with distributed systems. Preferred candidates have a Master’s or PhD and C/C++ expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• 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.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

C/C++

Job description

Software Engineer, Agent Cloud Rate Limiting

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience programming in C or C++.
• Experience in Generative AI.

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 Agent Cloud initiative is evolving Google Cloud to manage the unique issues of non-deterministic AI agents and workloads. Our team bridges the gap between traditional Cloud networking and the new agentic ecosystem by leveraging traditional infrastructure systems like Bouncer, QuotaServer, QuotaStore to provide quota and rate limiting infrastructure under Agent Gateway, the central conduit securing and governing agent-to-agent and agent-to-tool communications.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• 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.

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