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# Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Storage Infrastructure

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Software Systems, Storage Technologies
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/staff-software-engineer-ai-ml-storage-infrastructure-san-jose-ca-usa-58902065

## About the Role

Experteer Overview In this role you will lead and mentor a distributed team to deliver high-impact software at scale. You will collaborate across teams to align goals, outcomes, and timelines, and drive priorities and delivery. You'll design, develop, test, and maintain large-scale systems, shaping infrastructure and core platforms that power Google's products. This position offers opportunities to influence technical direction and work on foundational technologies that enable innovation at a massive scale. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and align a distributed engineering team across goals and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale software solutions Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in C++ * 5 years of experience testing and launching software products * 5 years of aaaaaaaa
on building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage hardware architecture * 3 years of experience with software design and architecture Key requirements * 20% bonus target * equity * benefits

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will lead and mentor a distributed team to deliver high-impact software at scale. You will collaborate across teams to align goals, outcomes, and timelines, and drive priorities and delivery. You'll design, develop, test, and maintain large-scale systems, shaping infrastructure and core platforms that power Google's products. This position offers opportunities to influence technical direction and work on foundational technologies that enable innovation at a massive scale. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and align a distributed engineering team across goals and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale software solutions Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in C++ * 5 years of experience testing and launching software products * 5 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage hardware architecture * 3 years of experience with software design and architecture Key requirements * 20% bonus target * equity * benefits


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