Staff Software Engineer, Google Store
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++ or Java.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience leading large-scale architectural migrations or v1 to v2 system overhauls.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) into production workflows for entity extraction, classification, or automated content validation.
- Experience with e-commerce or global commerce complexities, such as inventory locking, localized catalog serving, and regional regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR/DMA).
- Proficiency in parallel algorithms, multi-level caching strategies, and performance profiling in resource-constrained environments.
- Expertise with data engineering, schema design, structured data, and catalog ingestion pipelines.
- Ability to drive excellence across the entire stack, including the development of internal observability and catalog management tools using Angular/TypeScript.
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.
The Google Store Serving and Structured Data team is the backbone of the Google Store. We simplify global merchant onboarding through standardized data feeds, ensure data accuracy via AI-driven quality checks, and build high-performance engines that deliver product data to millions of users.
As the Serving Lead, you will own the architectural evolution of our platform handling thousands of queries per second, ensuring that billions of dollars in hardware business are anchored by high-availability, low-latency infrastructure.
You will lead the Serving team in building a Google-class ecosystem. Your mission is to bridge the gap between complex merchant data and a frictionless user experience, leveraging distributed systems at scale and Generative AI/LLM integrations to automate data integrity and catalog intelligence.
Google Store is our omnichannel, global retailer, leveraging the best of Google to help customers experience our award-winning devices and services. Our team is responsible for a vast portfolio that supports the entire customer journey, from product discovery to upgrading their next device. This portfolio includes the My Pixel app distributed with every Pixel phone, the Google Store global eCommerce platform, our leading edge retail point-of-sale system, and AI-driven algorithms for customer lifecycle management.
The Store team applies Google's AI to solve complex, real-world problems across our growing global footprint of online and brick-and-mortar storefronts. This ranges from AI-enhanced site operations to agentic AI shopping assistance, ensuring a seamless and intelligent experience at every touchpoint.
The Store team is committed to providing team members with the opportunity to build their applied AI skillset, so that we may ultimately help our customers connect with the best of Google.Responsibilities
- Design and lead the migration to a next-generation catalog serving infrastructure capable of sub-millisecond latency and linear horizontal scalability across global regions.
- Architect and deploy production-grade LLM pipelines to automate anomaly detection, normalize unstructured merchant feeds, and synthesize rich product attributes from disparate data sources.
- Act as the primary technical authority for the Serving stack. Set the standard for concurrency models, system resilience, and code health, while mentoring a high-performing team of Senior and Staff engineers.
- Partner with UX, Product, and Business leads to translate Google’s hardware roadmap into a multi-year technical outlook, ensuring the platform supports rapid product launches without architectural strain.
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