Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Discover Feed Recommendation Infrastructure
Mountain View, CA, USA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$262k-$364kDetected 50 min ago
JavaGoC++Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresNLPUI DesignLeadership
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About the role
- - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- - 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Go or Python.
Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives to reduce serving latency and optimize infrastructure capacity, ensuring a seamless and efficient experience at scale.
- Consolidate our efforts into a unified GenAI platform that supports both offline generation and real-time inference.
- Identify optimization and simplification opportunities across multiple work streams with GenAI Infrastructure. Build prototype for proof of concept.
- Coordinate development across teams and drive launches.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Go or Python.
- 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture
- Lead the architectural work required to bring GenAI capabilities to billions of users.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search.
- 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.
Compensation
- US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
This listing is sourced directly from Google's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.