Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI, Trust and Safety

Google

Kirkland, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Adobe Acrobat, Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Language, Best Practices, Business Growth, Capacity Management, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cross-Functional, Data Science, Data Storage, Distributed Computing, Employee Benefits, English Language, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Event Management, Genetics, High Availability, Information Retrieval, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Search, Large-Scale Systems, Leadership, Machine Learning, Mentoring, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Network Design, Problem Solving Skills, Production Systems, Recruiting/Staffing Agency, Regulatory Requirements, Risk Management, Software Engineering, Standards Development, State Laws and Regulations, Stock Purchase Plans, System Architecture, Systems Administration/Management, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, User Interface Design

LOCATION

Kirkland, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI, Trust and Safety _corporate_fare_ Google _place_ Kirkland, WA, USA **Advanced** Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain. _info_outline_ XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: + Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance + 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 **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience with designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems. + 5 years of experience with machine learning (ML) infrastructure or another ML field. + Experience with architectural ownership for distributed systems or infrastructure components. + Experience building and deploying agentic AI systems. **Preferred qualifications:** + Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. + Experience managing rapid technical iteration, 0->1 innovation, and managing deep technical ambiguity across multiple engineering organizations. + Experience defining organization-wide technical strategies, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring Executive Engineers and Tech Leads. + Background in Trust and Safety, content moderation, security, or anti-abuse engineering at a global scale, managing billions of daily events or real-time streaming data. + Strong technical communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex architectural trade-offs and AI capabilities into recommendations for cross-functional executives. **About the job** 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. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. In this role, you will steer a high-performing engineering organization. You will architect fault-tolerant, and horizontally scalable solutions across the entire technical stack, ensuring user protection at Google scale. You will grow in ambiguity, resolving cross-system friction and managing systemic risk across complex distributed networks. You will act as a massive multiplier: defining engineering standards, mentoring tech leads across the organization, enforcing operational excellence and driving cross-functional technical execution. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) . **Responsibilities** + Define, advocate, and execute the overarching Trust and Safety technology roadmap, architecting next-generation AI/ML systems and highly reliable distributed infrastructure to automate and scale global user protection. + Oversee the integration of high-availability, low-latency production systems with stringent Service Level Objective (SLO) guarantees, driving excellence across system bottlenecks, data consistency, capacity planning, and cost-efficiency. + Steer critical, multi-team technical initiatives from initial abstract discovery through to large-scale deployment, translating high-level business goals into parallelizable engineering workstreams. + Define standards for fault-tolerant architectures while mentoring Tech Leads in industry best practices across code quality, CI/CD, comprehensive testing, and systemic technical debt reduction. + Partner closely with Product, Policy, and Data Science leadership to co-create the global technology stack, serving as a trusted advisor to executives and abstracting complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) . Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) . If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) . Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting. To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

About the Company

Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

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COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Other/Not Classified

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

FOUNDED

1998

WEBSITE

https://goo.gle/4dbno6V

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI, Trust and Safety

Google

Kirkland, WA

About the Company

Google

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