Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale seeks a Share Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to lead multi-quarter architecture for an open-source agent platform and runtime foundations. You will shape APIs, security, and portability for AI agent execution across devices and cloud, aligning with Cloud, AI/ML, and security teams.

You will drive open-source collaboration, mentor engineers, and help define standards in agentic computing while delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in Go, Python, Rust or C++.
• 5 years of experience with software design/architecture across distributed systems, developer platforms/tooling, container runtimes, or AI/cloud infra.
• 3 years of experience with software design/architecture.
• Experience building/architecting Agentic AI platforms and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive the multi-quarter technical architecture and roadmap for our open-source agent platform, runtime, and developer experience.
• Define clean, extensible platform abstractions, APIs, and lifecycle protocols for stateful, secure, portable AI agent execution from laptop to cloud.
• Lead technical alignment across Google Cloud, AI/ML teams, security, and external framework/lab partners for cohesive end-to-end agent workflows.
• Solve complex challenges balancing zero-friction developer ergonomics with governance, isolation, and hyperscale performance.
• Provide technical leadership in the open-source community and standards bodies, mentoring engineers.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

AI infrastructure

Architectural design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's preferred

Job description

Share Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

corporate_fare Google place Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, or C++).
• 5 years of experience with software design and architecture across distributed systems, developer platforms/tooling, container/virtualization runtimes, or AI/cloud infrastructure.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience building/architecting Agentic AI platforms and infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• Deep architectural expertise in two or more of: agentic harnesses and runtimes, container/microVM and OS isolation, developer tooling/DX, or Kubernetes/cloud-native control planes in Go.
• Recognized open-source leadership (maintainer, creator, or specification author in CNCF, AI/agent foundations, or adopted developer tools) and comfort operating in fast-moving spaces between applied research and production engineering.
• Track record of taking 0-to-1 developer platforms, open-source runtimes, CLIs/SDKs, or AI agent infrastructure from early concept to widespread adoption.

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 .

• Drive the multi-quarter technical architecture and roadmap for our open-source agent platform, runtime, and developer experience.
• Define clean, extensible platform abstractions, APIs, and lifecycle protocols that support stateful, secure, and portable AI agent execution from laptop to cloud.
• Lead technical alignment across Google Cloud, AI/ML teams, security, and external framework and lab partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end agent workflows.
• Solve complex challenges balancing zero-friction developer ergonomics with enterprise governance, isolation, and hyperscale performance.
• Provide technical leadership in the open-source community and standards bodies, cultivating external adoption and mentoring engineers across the team.

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.

We build the open-source, developer‑first orchestration and runtime foundations that power modern AI and autonomous agent workloads.

Our team combines deep distributed-systems and upstream open-source leadership with fast-paced, applied exploration: we build in the open, partner closely with frontier AI labs, external framework and harness maintainers, and open standards foundations, and iterate rapidly with the developer community to shape industry‑wide standards for AI and agentic computing.

In this role, you'll define and drive the technical architecture of Google Cloud's open-source agent platform and developer substrate. As a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you will set multi-quarter technical direction across developer experience, stateful agent execution, secure isolation, and ecosystem‑wide interoperability.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting‑edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world‑leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents‑to‑be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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