Staff Software Engineer - AI & Large-Scale Systems

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions connect, explore, and interact with information. Our products handle information at massive scale and extend well beyond web search, across information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, NLP, UI and mobile.

The Detection and Response Platform Organization builds systems to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++ or Go.
• 5 years of design/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., Spanner, BigQuery, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying generative AI agents or LLM applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for one of the largest data ingestion and processing platforms at Alphabet.
• Drive latency reduction, improve SLOs, reduce manual intervention through automation, and integrate agents where needed.
• Provide oversight and guidance to executive engineers.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to serve the Detection and Response Platform organization.

Skills

C++ or Go

Distributed systems

Data processing systems

AI agents / LLM apps

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions connect, explore, and interact with information. Our products handle information at massive scale and extend well beyond web search, across information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, AI, NLP, UI and mobile.

The Detection and Response Platform Organization builds systems to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats in