Staff Software Engineer, Multimodal Search

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• Experience in technical leadership.
• Experience designing and implementing full-stack, enterprise-grade applications and distributed systems (e.g., microservices, containerization).
• Experience leading projects through the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

Preferred qualifications

• 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.
• Experience in software design and architecture.
• Experience in distributed systems/data analysis and ML.
• Experience with designing AI native solutions.

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 Google Search AI and work at the intersection of industry leading global scale. We apply breakthrough research, leveraging models like Gemini, to launch high-impact products that help billions ask any question and get things done. If you want to drive the future of AI in Search and work with world-class experts to deliver tangible, global impact and continuous innovation, this is the place.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, l ead the technical architecture and roadmap to scale Song Search in the AI era, build systems that transform it into an indispensable, habit-forming music discovery experience served reliably and efficiently at Google Scale.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Drive technical direction and engineering excellence within the pod, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, guiding architectural designs, and fostering a culture of innovation.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.