Staff Software Engineer, Vector Search, Vertex AI

Google Google · Big Tech · Warsaw, Poland

Staff Software Engineer role focused on Vector Search Serving infrastructure within Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, supporting enterprise AI initiatives and Gemini models. Requires extensive experience in software development, distributed systems, and infrastructure, with a preference for GenAI techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the technical goal and architecture of the Vector Search Serving infrastructure and drive decisions that ensure the system can manage massive datasets and query volumes with low latency.
  2. Contribute to critical code paths, conduct high-quality code reviews, and author technical design documents to maintain a technical presence.
  3. Advocate for reliability and service health by overseeing incident management processes, ensuring that customer issues are resolved effectively and that post-mortems lead to systemic improvements.
  4. Act as the bridge between technology and users by understanding customer use cases and ensuring the infrastructure evolves to meet their changing needs.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • software design
  • software architecture

Nice to have

  • GenAI techniques
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Modal
  • Large Vision Models
  • language modeling
  • computer vision
  • technical leadership
  • project teams
  • technical direction

What the JD emphasized

  • low latency
  • massive datasets
  • query volumes
  • GenAI techniques
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Modal
  • Large Vision Models

Other signals

  • Vertex AI
  • Vector Search
  • Gemini models
  • LLMs
  • Multi-Modal
  • Large Vision Models