Google

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$207k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive the multi-quarter technical architecture and roadmap for the open-source agent platform, runtime, and developer experience.
  • Define extensible platform abstractions, APIs, and lifecycle protocols for stateful, secure, and portable AI agent execution from laptop to cloud.
  • Lead technical alignment across Google Cloud, AI/ML teams, security, and external framework and laboratory partners.
  • Balance developer ergonomics with enterprise governance, isolation, and hyperscale performance.
  • Provide technical leadership in open-source communities and standards bodies while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, including Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
  • At least 5 years of software design and architecture experience across distributed systems, developer platforms and tooling, container or virtualization runtimes, or AI/cloud infrastructure.
  • At least 3 years of software design and architecture experience.
  • Experience building or architecting agentic AI platforms and infrastructure.
  • Preferred: master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Preferred: deep architectural expertise in at least two areas including agentic harnesses and runtimes, container or microVM and OS isolation, developer tooling and developer experience, or Kubernetes/cloud-native control planes in Go.
  • Preferred: recognized open-source leadership and experience taking developer platforms, open-source runtimes, CLIs, SDKs, or AI agent infrastructure from concept to widespread adoption.

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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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