Staff Software Engineer, Detection & Response

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

Job summary

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Detection and Response Platform to design and build large-scale security data systems and services. You will lead architectural decisions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance detection and response capabilities in Google’s security stack.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance, and the application of AI agents or LLMs to enhance threat detection and automated responses within a global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++ or Go.
• 5 years of experience with design and 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 apps.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for one of the largest data ingestion and processing platforms at Alphabet.
• Drive latency reduction, improve service level objectives (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++/Go

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Data processing

AI/LLM apps

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Spanner

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Job description

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Detection and Response Platform to design and build large-scale security data systems and services. You will lead architectural decisions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to advance detection and response capabilities in Google’s security stack.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance, and the application of AI agents or LLMs to enhance threat detection and automated responses within a global