8 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the multi-year architectural goal and technical roadmap for Google’s Code Search platform.
- Architect, scale, and evolve high-throughput, low-latency indexing and query-serving infrastructure.
- Support massive repository scale, near-real-time freshness, and workloads from autonomous AI agents.
- Drive technical alignment across Developer Infrastructure, AI Agent platforms, IDE surfaces, and Research.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers and set standards for reliability, performance engineering, and experimentation.
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions while managing project priorities and deliverables.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Eight years of experience in software development.
- Five years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- Experience with computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Experience in search and information retrieval.
- Experience with low-level systems programming languages such as C++ or C.
- Preferred: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: experience architecting high-throughput, low-latency search, retrieval, or applied AI/ML systems.
- Preferred: experience with information retrieval and search infrastructure, including inverted or trigram indices, learning-to-rank, and real-time incremental indexing.
- Preferred: experience building retrieval and context-selection systems for LLM-powered coding agents using retrieval evaluation.
- Preferred: experience driving technical strategy across developer infrastructure, machine learning, and product teams.
- Preferred: experience exploring technical directions, prototyping, and evaluating latency, freshness, relevance, and token efficiency.
About Google
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.