Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product Strategy and Architecture

Google Google · Big Tech · Austin, TX +3

Staff Software Engineer focused on defining and scaling enterprise-wide architectural standards, reference models, and patterns for data platforms and AI/ML capabilities within Google's Corporate Engineering. The role involves technical design consultations, architecture reviews, supporting the Enterprise Architecture Board, leading technical forums, and establishing reusable patterns for data ingestion, pipeline orchestration, model deployment, and generative AI integrations. The goal is to ensure alignment with long-term data scalability and enterprise AI safety, reduce redundancy, and accelerate delivery.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade reference architectures, blueprints, and technical roadmaps for next-generation data platforms and AI/ML capabilities across Corporate Engineering.
  2. Conduct deep-dive technical design consultations and architecture reviews to ensure emerging product strategies align with long-term data scalability and enterprise AI safety goals.
  3. Support the Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB) by reviewing high-impact data and AI proposals, proactively identifying architectural fragmentation, and mitigating security threats or technical debt.
  4. Lead technical forums, architecture deep-dives, and workshops to elevate the data engineering and AI competencies of technical leads and builders across Corporate Engineering.
  5. Establish reusable architectural patterns, templates, and principles for data ingestion, pipeline orchestration, model deployment, and generative AI integrations to reduce systemic redundancy and accelerate delivery.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • software products
  • large-scale data architecture frameworks
  • enterprise data warehouses
  • data lakes
  • production-grade AI/ML pipelines

Nice to have

  • technology
  • software engineering
  • enterprise architecture
  • data engineering
  • AI/ML systems
  • influencing decentralized technical teams
  • drive adoption of centralized engineering standards without direct authority
  • developing data and product strategies
  • diverse portfolio of internal systems
  • complex, large-scale enterprise

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise AI safety

Other signals

  • architectural standards
  • reference models
  • patterns
  • data platforms
  • AI/ML capabilities
  • enterprise AI safety
  • data ingestion
  • pipeline orchestration
  • model deployment
  • generative AI integrations