Senior Staff Engineer, AI Developer, Platform

Google Google · Big Tech · Warsaw, Poland

Senior Staff Engineer role focused on the design, architecture, and implementation of an AI Developer Platform. This platform provides core cross-product services including inference, anti-abuse protection, and observability for various AI developer tools and surfaces like Gemini CLI, Gemini code assist extensions, and agent manager web. The role involves technical leadership, setting technical direction, and influencing the product roadmap for AI Developer Tools within Google.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the overall design, architecture, and implementation strategies for AI Developer Platform, ensuring alignment with the mission to enhance developer productivity.
  2. Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Partner teams to define the goals and drive the strategic roadmap.
  3. Guide the team through technical choices, balancing short-term needs versus long-term strategic goals. Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies and approaches.
  4. Establish and maintain high technical standards, ensuring code quality, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
  5. Set the technical direction, help plan deliverables and milestones and drive execution. Identify and proactively address technical issues and risks, and propose effective solutions to advance the team's velocity and impact on developer tooling.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • testing
  • launching software products
  • software design
  • architecture
  • technical leadership
  • setting technical direction
  • owning design and architecture
  • mentoring engineers
  • guiding project execution

Nice to have

  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • API design
  • multi-tenancy
  • containerization
  • security in cloud environments
  • clean, well thought out designs
  • Google Cloud Platform

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Developer Platform
  • inference
  • AI Developer Tools

Other signals

  • AI Developer Platform
  • inference
  • cross-product services
  • AI Developer Tools
  • Gemini CLI
  • Gemini code assist extensions
  • agent manager web