Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Commerce, Applied Benefits

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 help build the agent ecosystem: the primitives, guardrails, and knowledge integrations that enable data agents to author and operate autonomously, including validating impact, safety, and reversibility before any change is applied. As a part of this, data engineering agents on Google Cloud earn autonomy, and practitioners ship production pipelines without babysitting the automation.

Building agents is table stakes. Making them safe to run unattended is not.

"Agents you don't have to watch."Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

• Design, develop and evolve the major components of our next-generation benefits infrastructure and provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.

• Work collaboratively with Area Tech Leads (ATLs), other engineers, Team Leads (TLs) and cross-functional teams and help align with YouTube Commerce broader architectural efforts.

• Support the mission to accelerate the paid product ecosystem for YouTube.

• Focus and help on accelerating the benefits platformization.

• Contribute to numerous high-impact and visible objectives and key results at YouTube.

Qualifications Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.

• 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.

• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

• Experience in business-to-business (B2B) or e-commerce software with a focus on C++ programming language.

• Understanding of software development principles, methodologies and best practices at Google.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for collaborating with both technical and non-technical team members with the ability to work across boundaries in a distributed team.