Staff Software Engineer - AI Agent Platform & Infra

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale seeks a Share Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to lead multi-quarter architecture for an open-source agent platform and runtime foundations. You will shape APIs, security, and portability for AI agent execution across devices and cloud, aligning with Cloud, AI/ML, and security teams.

You will drive open-source collaboration, mentor engineers, and help define standards in agentic computing while delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in Go, Python, Rust or C++.
• 5 years of experience with software design/architecture across distributed systems, developer platforms/tooling, container runtimes, or AI/cloud infra.
• 3 years of experience with software design/architecture.
• Experience building/architecting Agentic AI platforms and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive the multi-quarter technical architecture and roadmap for our open-source agent platform, runtime, and developer experience.
• Define clean, extensible platform abstractions, APIs, and lifecycle protocols for stateful, secure, portable AI agent execution from laptop to cloud.
• Lead technical alignment across Google Cloud, AI/ML teams, security, and external framework/lab partners for cohesive end-to-end agent workflows.
• Solve complex challenges balancing zero-friction developer ergonomics with governance, isolation, and hyperscale performance.
• Provide technical leadership in the open-source community and standards bodies, mentoring engineers.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

AI infrastructure

Architectural design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's preferred

Job description

Google LLC in Sunnyvale seeks a Share Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to lead multi-quarter architecture for an open-source agent platform and runtime foundations. You will shape APIs, security, and portability for AI agent execution across devices and cloud, aligning with Cloud, AI/ML, and security teams.

You will drive open-source collaboration, mentor engineers, and help define standards in agentic computing while delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure.