Senior Staff Engineer, AI Developer, Platform

Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. The role involves working on projects critical to Google's needs, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile. The mission is to make developer tools easier to navigate, consume, and extend, providing core cross-product services such as license, quota and overages management, anti-abuse protection, billing, customer onboarding, Product Led Growth (PLG), enterprise governance, inference, and cross-tool observability. The AI Developer Platform serves as backend for multiple surfaces and partners, including antigravity, Gemini CLI, Gemini code assist extensions, Android studio, colab, Chrome Dev tools, Devsites, and agent manager web. The Google Cloud AI Research team focuses on AI challenges across various industries, aiming to push the state-of-the-art in AI and collaborate with product teams to bring innovations to real-world impact.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role, including setting technical direction, owning design and architecture, mentoring engineers, and guiding project execution.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in writing high-quality Go, Java, Python code.
• Experience with API design, multi-tenancy, containerization, and security in cloud environments.
• Ability to produce clean, well thought out designs.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).

• Own the overall design, architecture, and implementation strategies for AI Developer Platform, ensuring alignment with the mission to enhance developer productivity.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Partner teams to define goals and drive the strategic roadmap.
• Guide the team through technical choices, balancing short-term needs versus long-term strategic goals.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies and approaches.
• Establish and maintain high technical standards, ensuring code quality, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Set the technical direction, help plan deliverables and milestones, and drive execution.
• Identify and proactively address technical issues and risks, proposing effective solutions to advance the team's velocity and impact on developer tooling.

Google is an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer 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. Qualified applicants are considered regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available upon request.