Staff Software Engineer, Gemini Code Assist

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in one or more of the following coding languages: Go, Java, Python.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, including setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving project execution.
• 3 years of experience with software development in training, developing or applying machine learning models.
• Experience with building Integrated Development Environment (IDEs) or Enterprise Software.

About The Job
Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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 lead a team in developing GenAI-based tools that dramatically increase developer productivity. You will develop server and middleware code that implements functionalities interacting with Google's latest LLMs. You will work closely with top researchers, engineers, and product managers from both Google Cloud AI and Google Research, developing challenging machine learning solutions that directly contribute to Google's product excellence. You will also develop features that integrate next-generation large language models with a balanced trade-off between performance and deployment constraints.

Additionally, you will improve application performance in areas like information retrieval, search, recommendations, conversational understanding, dialogue summarization, and content moderation.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the definition and drive the implementation of the technical goal, strategy, and architecture for GenAI-powered developer tools, ensuring alignment with the mission to enhance developer productivity.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and engineers across Google Cloud AI to translate product and non-functional requirements into tangible product features.
• Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders to make decisions on available technologies and approaches.
• Triage product or system issues, and then debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing the sources of issues and their impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of software engineers in designing, developing, and maintaining robust server-side systems within the scope of Gemini Code Assist.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .