Google

Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Cloud AI

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of software development experience with various programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience with software product testing, maintenance, or launch, plus 1 year in software design and architecture.
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms is preferred.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role is preferred.
  • Experience in developing accessible technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Develop high-performance data warehousing and storage systems for AI models and analytics.
  • Implement data quality monitoring and governance for integrity and compliance.
  • Collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists on infrastructure projects.
  • Optimize data pipelines for cost and performance improvements.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years.
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, increasing to 69 for Seattle employees.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave including baby bonding time.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
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X In 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
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.


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.

Our team builds the critical data infrastructure, log processing engines, and automated experimentation pipelines that power our executive dashboards and guide product strategy.

As a Senior Data Engineer on this team, you will design robust, compliant pipelines handling massive datasets and transition raw log signals into real-time metrics. You will directly influence how our customers measure their AI investment and how our engineering teams validate their feature rollouts.

The Google Cloud AI Research team addresses AI challenges motivated by Google Cloud's mission of bringing AI to tech, healthcare, finance, retail and many other industries. We work on a range of unique problems focused on research topics that maximize scientific and real-world impact, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and share findings with the broader research community. We also collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact that benefits our customers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to ingest and transform enterprise data into Gemini Enterprise.
  • Develop high-performance data warehousing and storage systems optimized for AI models, search capabilities, and analytics.
  • Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and governance to uphold strict integrity, privacy, access controls, and compliance standards.
  • Partner with SWEs, PMs, and Data Scientists to deliver robust infrastructure that powers new product features and AI capabilities.
  • Optimize pipelines for cost, latency, and resource usage while driving best practices in data modeling, schema design, and orchestration.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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