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# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure AI Agent

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Cassandra, Data Analytics, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-staff-software-engineer-data-infrastructure-ai-agent-sunnyvale-tx-usa-58901891

## About the Role

security, and compliance primitives for real-time analytics * Lead the Data and AI engineering track; mentor developers and collaborate across functions to integrate identity management and access controls Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in Java and Python * 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products * Experience architecting, designing, and developing large-scale distributed systems * Experience designing or deploying distributed data processing systems (e.g., BigQuery, Cassandra, PostgreSQL) * Experience designing, developing, and deploying generative AI agents or large language model (LLM) applications Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits

## Description

Experteer Overview As a Software Engineer in Google Cloud's Data Analytics and Intelligence team, you will shape AI-ready data foundations and scalable architectures for enterprise use. You'll own technical strategy, design high-throughput pipelines, and unify data and GenAI layers to empower secure, real-time decision making. You'll lead cross-functional efforts, mentor engineers, and drive performance and governance across distributed systems. This role offers a unique chance to influence the adoption of enterprise AI at scale within a fast-growing cloud platform. Compensation / Benefits * Own the technical strategy and architecture for AI-ready data foundations, including pipelines and unified storage * Architect horizontal search and summarization agents and modular personalization frameworks * Drive latency optimizations across the agent execution stack to meet real-time query goals * Design automated evaluation frameworks to improve agent accuracy * Establish data governance, security, and compliance primitives for real-time analytics * Lead the Data and AI engineering track; mentor developers and collaborate across functions to integrate identity management and access controls Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in Java and Python * 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products * Experience architecting, designing, and developing large-scale distributed systems * Experience designing or deploying distributed data processing systems (e.g., BigQuery, Cassandra, PostgreSQL) * Experience designing, developing, and deploying generative AI agents or large language model (LLM) applications Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits


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