Staff Software Engineer - Detection & Response Platform

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

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Detection and Response Platform in San Francisco, CA. You will provide technical leadership on a large-scale data ingestion/processing platform, drive latency reductions, and improve SLOs while coordinating with cross-functional teams and executive engineers.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, AI/LLM applications, and security-focused engineering to strengthen Google's threat detection capabilities.

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 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

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Data processing systems

AI/LLM applications

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in related field (preferred)

Tools

Spanner

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Detection and Response Platform in San Francisco, CA. You will provide technical leadership on a large-scale data ingestion/processing platform, drive latency reductions, and improve SLOs while coordinating with cross-functional teams and executive engineers.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, AI/LLM applications, and security-focused engineering to strengthen Google's threat detection capabilities.