Google

Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Cloud AI

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years programming experience in C, Java, Python, Kotlin, or Go
  • 5 years experience testing and launching software products
  • 3 years of software design and architecture experience
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize highly scalable data pipelines for enterprise data loading
  • Develop high-performance data warehousing solutions with best practices
  • Implement data governance and quality monitoring systems
  • Enforce data privacy and security policies for enterprise data
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver infrastructure

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 days vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period
  • 40 hours sick time per year, increasing to 69 hours for Seattle
  • 28-30 weeks maternity leave and 18 weeks baby bonding leave
  • 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.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C , Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

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.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.


About the job

Join the Cloud AI Data Engineering team! 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 Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will design robust, compliant pipelines handling massive datasets and transitioning 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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Design and optimize highly scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to efficiently load enterprise data into Gemini Enterprise, ensuring cost-efficiency and data freshness.
  • Develop high-performance data warehousing solutions, applying best practices in schema design and data modeling to support search, AI models, and analytics.
  • Implement data governance, quality monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure the ongoing integrity and trustworthiness of the platform's data.
  • Enforce strict data privacy and security policies, managing access controls and data wipeout procedures for all handled enterprise data.
  • Partner with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to define requirements and deliver data infrastructure that drives new product capabilities.


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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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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