Staff Software Engineer

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.

Woodshed is Google's AI/ML Storage system. It provides high-throughput, exabyte-scale foundation for all ML workloads at Google. The goal is to accelerate ML training and inferences, and simplify ML data management for all Google products. Woodshed is recommended as the standard ML training system for Gemini Pre-Training and traditional ML training. It empowers most of the flagship ML workloads at Google (e.g., Ads, Search, YouTube, Shopping, Gemini, Waymo, Nano Banana, Veo, Workspace, and more).

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Partner with infrastructure and client teams to guide integrations.
• Review designs and code of other engineers for quality and correctness.
• Collaborate on planning roadmap.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with C++, Large Scale Distributed Systems, and Technical Infrastructure.
• Experience in distributed databases.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in C++ and storage systems.