Senior Software Engineer, Search UI and AI Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• Experience in the Java and C++ programming language.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• Experience with server and client performance optimizations and infrastructure supporting high-traffic, complex applications.
  
• Strong knowledge of browser rendering life-cycles, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimization.
• Familiarity with Chrome DevTools and related web technologies for UI rendering.
  
• Proven track record of technical leadership and ownership in complex engineering projects.
  
• Enthusiasm for Generative AI and LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications on top of LLMs.
  

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.

In this role, you will support Search UI infrastructure, enabling Search front-end developers to build and launch new functionality both within our current system as well as the next-generation system we are building.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of your immediate area of software engineering work, from conception to design, implementation, and deployment.
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope problems, research potential solutions and technologies, and recommend solutions that balance short-term needs with long-term goals.
  
• Design and develop full-stack solutions.
  
• Drive complex projects from inception through execution, demonstrating technical leadership and development.
  
• Act as a point of contact for your team and contribute to setting technical direction and priorities.