Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Cloud AI

Google; United States; On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA and Kirkland, WA seek a Staff Software Engineer in Cloud AI Data Engineering. You will design scalable pipelines, build data infrastructure, and collaborate with product teams to power AI features at scale.

Lead data governance, secure data handling, and real-time metrics across enterprise workloads, influencing architecture and delivery in a large, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize highly scalable batch and streaming data pipelines for Gemini Enterprise.
• Develop high-performance data warehousing solutions for search, AI models, and analytics.
• Implement data governance, quality monitoring, and alerting systems for data integrity.
• Enforce data privacy and security policies, manage access controls and data wipeout procedures.
• Partner with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to define requirements.

Skills

8 years programming in languages

5 years testing and launching software

3 years design and architecture

Experience integrating generative AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Cloud AI

Google

Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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 and 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.

Join the Cloud AI Data Engineering team! Our team builds the critical data infrastructure, log processing engines, and automated experimentation pipelines that power our executive dashboards and guide product strategy.

As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will design robust, compliant pipelines handling massive datasets and transitioning raw log signals into real-time metrics. You will directly influence how our customers measure their AI investment and how our engineering teams validate their feature rollouts.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize highly scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to efficiently load enterprise data into Gemini Enterprise, ensuring cost-efficiency and data freshness.
• Develop high-performance data warehousing solutions, applying best practices in schema design and data modeling to support search, AI models, and analytics.
• Implement data governance, quality monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure the ongoing integrity and trustworthiness of the platform's data.
• Enforce strict data privacy and security policies, managing access controls and data wipeout procedures for all handled enterprise data.
• Partner with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to define requirements and deliver data infrastructure that drives new product capabilities.

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