Senior Software Engineer - Search Platforms

Staff Software Engineer, Search Platforms

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java).
• 5 years of experience with testing, and launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with building or leveraging agentic frameworks and Large Language Model (LLM)-powered automation to enhance investigative velocity.
• Experience with designing agentic workflows and multi-agent architectures, and with the model context protocol, agent development kit and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication patterns.

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 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

• Ideate, design and build developer experience for Search developers. Test status quo and work backwards from the developer customers.
• Work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for developers space.
• Build platform systems that scale for Search product's needs.
• Focus on thinking and quality.
• Guide engineering team.

Experience Level

Senior Level