The Staff Software Engineer will join the Google Cloud Storage Object Context and Search team, focusing on the design and development of critical capabilities for semantic storage and search solutions. This role involves leading the technical direction and execution strategy for major subsystems within Google Cloud Platform. The engineer will work in a collaborative environment, partnering with executive leadership to foster a positive engineering culture. The position emphasizes high-performance storage and low-latency retrieval at a massive scale.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years of experience leading the technical direction, design, and roadmap for systems or product areas.
• 3 years of experience mentoring, coaching, and growing software engineers.
• 3 years of experience with systems programming in C++.
• 3 years of experience with stateful distributed systems, search infrastructure, or database internals.

• Lead the design, architecture, and optimization of key components of GCS's vector database and semantic search engines.
• Own the technical roadmap and execution strategy for major subsystems.
• Collaborate closely with executive technical leadership to align with overall project and GCS goals.
• Partner with adjacent infrastructure teams to design and build faster, more reliable, and highly scalable systems.
• Establish engineering excellence standards for testing, diagnostics, and observability.
• Identify and address systemic engineering bottlenecks to improve development velocity and system health.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.