Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Ai, Full Stack

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google Cloud AI, focusing on the Colab platform. This role involves setting technical direction, ensuring scalability and reliability, and mentoring engineers. While the team works on AI challenges and collaborates with product teams, the primary focus of this specific role is on the platform's engineering excellence and developer tooling, rather than direct AI model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set the overarching technical goals, roadmap, and architectural decisions to ensure Colab continues as the premier notebook platform inside and outside Google.
  2. Collaborate closely with product, user experience (UX), and partner engineering teams to seamlessly align technical execution with product strategy and goals.
  3. Oversee the scalability, reliability, security, and overall engineering excellence of all Colab systems and infrastructure.
  4. Scale team velocity and performance continuously by advocating and implementing the best engineering tools and practices.
  5. Mentor, guide, and develop executive engineers and technical leads (TLs) actively within the Colab organization to build a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 7 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products

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 a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects
  • Experience designing, building, or implementing cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and developer-focused tooling
  • Experience developing and scaling high-performance developer tools, environments, or platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and developer-focused tooling
  • developing and scaling high-performance developer tools, environments, or platforms