Google
Posted 1w ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Acquisition Infrastructure

Google
San Jose, California, United States
$207k-$300k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • leading system design
  • scaling infrastructure
  • optimizing performance
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 8 years programming in C++
  • 5 years large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems experience, and expertise in API design
  • Distributed processing, and infrastructure technologies
Technical tools mentioned
C++APISpannerGenerative AIGoogle Cloud

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Experience with API design, infra spanner, distributed processing and Generative AI agents.
  • Experience with server platform or pod.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Ability to grow in cross-team collaboration and dig deep and understand system implementation details.
  • Ability to lead a team to deliver high availability services/systems.
  • Passionate about production excellence, such as system reliability, debuggability, and long-term maintainability.

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 be working on the large scale of crawling, rendering, scraping infrastructure for Google, which acquires tens of billions of Web content per day, to power Google products including Search, Gemini model training, Google Cloud, Ads, Shopping, etc.

We are seeing increasing needs from many teams within Google to acquire various content from the Web to power their products (e.g., news pages, web automation (agent), model training data, etc.). Our web discovery and crawling infrastructure is positioned to support these emerging cases, and we are investing in building scalable and sustainable web navigation functionalities.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system modeling and design.
  • Drive infrastructure scaling and reliability.
  • Deliver effective data targeting solutions.
  • Execute resource and performance optimization and improvements.
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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About Google

Global technology specializing in internet-related services and products.

Year founded
1998
Employees
181000
Organization type
Private
Latest investment
Raised $84.75B Funding Round (2026) — led by Berkshire Hathaway
Headquarters
US

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