Technical Lead, Home Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Warsaw, Poland

This role is for a Technical Lead in Home Infrastructure at Google, focusing on building and managing scalable serving and offline infrastructure for the Health and Home team. The role involves leading a team, ensuring reliability and low-latency performance of distributed systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. While the team uses AI technologies like Gemini, the core responsibility is infrastructure engineering, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire and grow the team in Warsaw, establish the engineering culture, and manage engineers while maintaining engineering best practices and ensuring high engineering quality.
  2. Develop, maintain, and ensure the reliability and low-latency performance of high-queries per second distributed systems.
  3. Review code and provide feedback to ensure best practices, including style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
  4. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  5. Deliver the projects for Home infrastructure by ensuring high engineering quality and working collaboratively with teams in different locations.

Skills

Required

  • software development in Java or C++
  • testing, maintaining, and launching infrastructure
  • software design and architecture
  • developing large-scale distributed infrastructure
  • storage or distributed data processing
  • technical leadership role leading project teams
  • setting technical direction

Nice to have

  • working in a complex matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects
  • managing an engineering team

What the JD emphasized

  • high-queries per second distributed systems
  • low-latency performance