Google

Staff Software Engineer, Agents, Workspace

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience in languages such as C or Python.
  • 5 years of leadership experience in Machine Learning (ML) design and infrastructure optimization.
  • 5 years of software testing and launching experience, with a focus on design and architecture.
  • 2 years of hands-on experience with GenAI techniques like LLMs or multi-modal models.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers.
  • Resolve ambiguous technical issues by collaborating with leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Partner with Workspace vertical teams to ensure engineering excellence and address scaling challenges.
  • Set technical goals and roadmap for the Agentic future, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategy.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Generous paid time off and leave policies.
  • Access to continuous learning and development opportunities.
  • Employee programs focused on diversity and community engagement.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C , Python).
  • 5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 2 years of experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

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.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Experience developing agentic systems, including multi-agent architectures, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and benchmarking for agentic reliability and safety (e.g., AgentBench, CLEAR).


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.

Join us in revolutionizing how billions of users interact with their most critical information within Google Workspace. Our team is at the heart of Workspace's artificial intelligence (AI) transformation, building the intelligent, agentic layer that deeply understands and acts upon user needs across Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Chat, and beyond. In this role, you will manage the exciting issues of creating Generative Artificial Intelligence agents that can semantically search, reason over, and synthesize information from Workspace sources to provide direct, high-quality answers and power sophisticated, personalized workflows.

AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products- Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.
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
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Clarify and solve ambiguous technical issues by collaborating with leadership and cross-functional partners to integrate Agentic infrastructure.
  • Partner with Workspace vertical teams to drive engineering excellence, proactively anticipating scaling bottlenecks to ensure low-latency performance and reliability.
  • Develop the technical goals and roadmap for our Agentic future, exhibiting strong judgment in balancing immediate product needs with the long-term health of our autonomous protocols.


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.
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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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