Staff Software Engineer, AI Intelligent Database Management

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Staff Software Engineer role focused on building and managing AI-assisted intelligent database management systems for enterprises. The role involves developing agentic experiences and LLM-based conversational agents to monitor and manage database fleets at scale, integrating with cloud databases and GCP services. Requires strong software engineering skills with significant experience in ML design, ML infrastructure optimization, and GenAI techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  2. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  3. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  4. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  5. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • software design and architecture
  • ML design
  • ML infrastructure optimization
  • GenAI techniques
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Modal
  • Large Vision Models
  • language modeling
  • computer vision

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • data structures and algorithms
  • technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction
  • working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Other signals

  • AI-assisted capabilities for enterprises
  • Virtual Database Administrator Agentic experience
  • LLM based conversational agent
  • 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure
  • 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques