Staff Software Engineer, Detection & Response Platform

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the design and development of large-scale distributed systems and AI-enabled agents. You will lead architecture efforts, own critical data ingestion pipelines, and guide cross-functional teams across the Detection and Response Platform organization.

The role requires extensive experience in C++/Go, distributed systems, and AI/LLM implementations, with opportunities to influence multiple core products at Google.

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 large language model (LLM) applications

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 programming

Distributed systems design

Leadership

AI/LLM applications

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

Spanner

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

AI agents

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the design and development of large-scale distributed systems and AI-enabled agents. You will lead architecture efforts, own critical data ingestion pipelines, and guide cross-functional teams across the Detection and Response Platform organization.

The role requires extensive experience in C++/Go, distributed systems, and AI/LLM implementations, with opportunities to influence multiple core products at Google.