Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Products and Systems, Google Photos

Google; Mountain View (CA); In loco; USD 207.000 - 300.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Google in Mountain View, CA is seeking software engineers to build next-generation systems. You will work on projects spanning AI, information retrieval, distributed computing, and large-scale data storage, collaborating across teams to deliver production-quality features for billions of users.

The role emphasizes robust software design, leadership, and the ability to push technology forward in a fast-paced environment.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Mansioni

• Build and ship software features end-to-end, including AI-enabled components.
• Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes and timelines.
• Collaborate with UX/PM/teammates to turn rough ideas into working prototypes on real data.
• Design and own production backend systems for scalable deployment.
• Work across client and server stack to ship faster updates to live experiments.

Conoscenze

Bachelor's degree

8 years programming

5 years testing

3 years design/architecture

AI integration

Formazione

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Descrizione del lavoro

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 programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 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.

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.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Build and ship 0-to-1 agent features end-to-end, including proactive agents that surface timely suggestions to users and long-running background agents that retrieve photos, run goal models item by item, and organize a user's library into dynamic spaces.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Partner closely with UX, PM, and teammates to turn rough ideas into working prototypes on real photo data, and collaborate with other Photos and Gemini teams to bring validated features into the main app.
• Design and own the 1-to-100 production backend systems needed to take successful experiments to 100M+ users without a full rewrite, covering async task execution, state streaming, data/byte permissions, and tool/MCP interfaces.
• Work across the client and server stack to ship faster updates to live experiments.

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 .