As a Staff Software Engineer on the Feeds Features team, you will lead the technical direction, design, and execution of flagship Merchant Center experiences and be responsible for the systems that analyze, benchmark, and optimize billions of offers.
Lead end-to-end technical designs and drive core implementation (clean code, scalable pipelines, robust inference/serving paths). Balance ambitious AI/ML capabilities with low latency, high throughput, and cost-efficient inference budgets.
Provide strategic thought leadership, establish multi-quarter technical roadmaps, and manage high-ambiguity quality challenges. Mentor, guide, and elevate junior to mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and high velocity.
Develop, test, and maintain code for software solutions supporting Google Merchant Center's data ingestion and feed management systems based on defined requirements.
Apply standard and emerging Google tools, resources, and processes to solve familiar, predefined technical tasks efficiently.
Utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) and Gemini to help build autoraters for evaluating product data quality and to automate testing workflows.
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, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
Experience in prompt engineering, or multi-agent systems.
Preferred qualifications
Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
Experience in prompt engineering, or multi-agent systems.
