Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools, Cloud Gemini Enterprise

About the role

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.

Responsibilities

• Design the end-to-end AI developer platform and establish technical roadmaps that maximize modularity across tools, autonomous agents, and Cloud infrastructure.
• Advocate for industry-leading agent communication standards (e.g., MCP, LSP) and establish robust isolation primitives for executing untrusted third-party code.
• Serve as a senior technical mentor, cultivating a culture of deep technical aptitude and proactive knowledge sharing across Google Cloud.
• Partner with Principal and Distinguished Engineers across Vertex AI, DeepMind, and Cloud Security to align cross-organizational initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• 2 years of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience designing developer toolchains and orchestrating production-scale AI agents.
• Experience architecting in VM/container sandboxing, high-throughput networking, and enterprise compliance.

Skills

• Fresh ideas from all areas of software development.
• Experience with large-scale system design.
• Experience with distributed computing.
• Experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with machine learning and optimization.
• Experience with software development and testing.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and AI.
• Experience with autonomous code transformation pipelines.
• Experience with sandboxed VM runtimes.
• Experience with agent communication standards.
• Experience with isolation primitives for executing untrusted code.
• Experience with technical mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Experience with cross-organizational initiatives.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retail Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Flexible work schedule suitable for remote work from locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.