Senior Software Engineer - Search Compliance Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer, Search Compliance Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with designing infrastructure systems for various applications and evaluating and selecting infrastructure components.
• Experience in designing and implementing distributed architectures.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with delivering results and making progress, with the ability to manage changing environments like AI policy and leverage AI-based methodologies in their solutions.
• Experience in working with multiple stakeholder teams, with the ability to articulate and collaborate with multiple executive leads, and excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with data privacy, security, compliance or data management infrastructure.
• Excellent technical leadership skills, and ability to mentor and grow other engineers.

About the job

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will guide the evolution of user data policy enforcement on the serving side of Search. You will protect users by delivering trusted experiences to the users, and shape the future of infrastructure by leading Search stack changes, while ensuring conformance with privacy and legal requirements. You will need to deliver incremental progress on time-sensitive efforts while steering the team towards the sustainable goals for the area.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical strategy for user data policy enforcement across the Search serving stack, while aligning with the evolving Artificial Intelligence landscape and Search’s architectural efforts.
• Lead the design and implementation of generalized and feature-aware policy enforcement mechanisms for all Search features.
• Develop and provide thought leadership for areas of internal security and privacy standards within Search.
• Collaborate with executive Team Leads from multiple Search Trust teams and partner teams to ensure compliance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to a team software engineers, including new graduates.

Experience Level

Senior Level