Google

Senior Software Engineer, Rate Limiting and Token Management

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1 day ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$174k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate globally distributed systems handling millions of queries across multiple regions.
  • Build distributed scheduling, dynamic reservation, and fair-sharing systems tuned for token-by-token streaming, bursty agent loops, speculative decoding, and prompt caching.
  • Build self-healing systems with failover, fast coordination, and telemetry to achieve 99.999% availability.
  • Set architectural direction for token orchestration and distribution across Google Cloud.
  • Develop quota and rate-limiting infrastructure for LLM token management and backend overload protection.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • At least 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
  • At least 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  • At least 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Preferred: 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Preferred: experience with Java or C/C++.
  • Preferred: experience in Generative AI.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits are offered in addition to base pay.
  • The role is part of Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure organization.

Tech Stack

CC++Google CloudJava

Categories

Google

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