Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Cloud AI

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +2

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their AI and Infrastructure team, focusing on delivering AI and Infrastructure at scale. The role involves technical leadership, designing, developing, and enhancing large-scale software solutions. While the team works on AI models and infrastructure, the core responsibilities of this specific role are in general software engineering and infrastructure development, not directly shipping AI models or agents.

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
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • software design
  • software architecture

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 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 testing, and launching software products
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture