Staff Software Engineer, Google Workspace, Gmail, Chat

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g., TensorFlow), artificial intelligence, deep learning, or natural language processing.
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a structured organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with data structures/algorithms.

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.

Google Workspace Gmail and Chat aims to build and maintain infrastructure to keep Gmail and Chat data secure, and to enable rapid development of GenAI based features in Gmail, Workspace and across Google that are powered by Gmail corpus. This division is responsible for building services and pipelines that ensure safety, compliance and the processing of all of Gmail data at scale. Gmail is one of the largest consumer products in the world. This large scale brings unique issues for any technology we use. We build and maintain batch and incremental processing infrastructure that can reliably process all of Gmail data to power key features for our customers.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work on next generation batch processing infrastructure for Gmail in powering new user experiences.
• Work on workspace wide convergence projects to bolster security and trust posture across the board.
• Work on exceptional processing and security technologies to shape the secure data consumption for gmail and overall Workspace.
• Identify and solve full stack issues with collaboration with partner teams towards next-generation batch processing and data validation initiatives.
• Define best practices to measure, monitoring and improving data security, compliance for Gmail and chat to meet our trust and compliance requirements.