Staff Software Engineer, GCS Object Context and Search

Google

Seattle, WA

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SKILLS

Adobe Acrobat, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Language, Best Practices, Business Growth, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Coaching, Data Storage, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Employee Benefits, English Language, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Genetics, Google Search Engine, Hyperion Pillar, Information Retrieval, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Instrumentation, Internet Search, Large-Scale Systems, Leadership, Leading Edge Technology, Mentoring, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Network Design, Organizational Skills, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Problem Solving Skills, Recruiting/Staffing Agency, Regulatory Requirements, Search Engines, Semantic Search, Software Engineering, State Laws and Regulations, Stock Purchase Plans, Systems Analysis, Systems Maintenance, Systems Scalability, Systems/Internals Programming, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Testing, User Interface Design

LOCATION

Seattle, WA

POSTED

6 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, GCS Object Context and Search _corporate_fare_ Google _place_ Seattle, 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 software development experience. + 3 years of experience leading the technical direction, design, and roadmap for systems or product areas. + 3 years of experience mentoring, coaching, and growing software engineers. + 3 years of experience with systems programming in C++. + 3 years of experience with stateful distributed systems, search infrastructure, or database internals. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining stateful Distributed Systems, search infrastructure, vector databases, or high-performance embedding storage. + Expertise in C++ systems programming, with a strong focus on low-level performance optimization and modern C++ best practices. + Proven track record of designing and establishing diagnostic frameworks, testing infrastructure, or systems instrumentation that guarantee long-term performance and reliability. + A customer-centric approach to engineering, with a history of leading data-driven initiatives to analyze and optimize system efficiency, network throughput, or search relevance. **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. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Google Cloud Storage Object Context and Search team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of critical capabilities that enable customers to build semantic storage and search solutions on Google Customer Solutions (GCS). You will play a key role in shaping the reliability, scalability, performance, and relevance of our systems, helping guide the technical direction of a critical infrastructure pillar within Google Cloud Platform. You will join a supportive, highly collaborative environment, where you will partner with executive technical leadership to advocate a positive engineering culture that makes solving complex systems issues rewarding. Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) . **Responsibilities** + Lead the design, architecture, and optimization of key components of GCS's vector database and semantic search engines (C++), focusing on high-performance storage and low-latency retrieval at planet scale. + Own the technical roadmap and execution strategy for major sub-systems, collaborating closely with executive technical leadership to align with the overall project and GCS goals. + Partner with adjacent infrastructure teams to design and build faster, more reliable, and highly scalable systems that operate within GCS's strict resource and throughput constraints. + Establish engineering excellence standards for testing, diagnostics, and observability, ensuring the system is performant, reliable, and easy to debug in production. + Identify and address systemic engineering bottlenecks, generalizing common patterns to improve development velocity and system health across the team. 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