Senior Staff Software Engineer, Feed Recommendation Infrastructure

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure,

distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies,

storage, or hardware architecture.

• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching

software products.

• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows,

and designing distributed systems for large-scale AI/ML workloads.

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.
• 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 in building and deploying recommendation systems models

(retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding)

in production.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and

deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance

software solutions.

Discover's AI transformation aims to evolve the platform from a traditional

recommendation feed into an intelligent, GenAI-powered engine that provides deep

personalization for billions of users. To unlock step-function user growth, we

must radically accelerate how fast we test and ship product ideas: compressing

the end-to-end cycle from a hypothesis to live experiments down to O(days).

As a Tech Lead, you will join our Infrastructure team and lead the charge in

building Growth Acceleration Infrastructure: an AI-in-the-loop experimentation

and productionization platform that empowers product teams to validate ideas

rapidly and scale winners to our users.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information –

any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering

challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally

accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In

joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on

billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Convert strategy to a roadmap and produce short term and long term plans.
• Coordinate development across teams and drive launches.
• Build prototype for proof of concept.
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.