Staff Software Engineer - Large-Scale Distributed & AI

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

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Job summary

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking software engineers to help build next-generation technologies at massive scale, with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows. The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and advancing AI, security, and data storage across Google’s platforms.

Our organization focuses on detection and response capabilities to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats in Google’s environments.

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

Distributed systems design

Generative AI

Data processing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Tools

Spanner

BigQuery

Cassandra

PostgreSQL

Job description

Google LLC in San Francisco is seeking software engineers to help build next-generation technologies at massive scale, with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows. The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and advancing AI, security, and data storage across Google’s platforms.

Our organization focuses on detection and response capabilities to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats in Google’s environments.