The Senior Software Engineer role at Google focuses on developing the Unified Commerce Platform (UCP) to enhance agentic commerce. This position involves addressing backend scaling challenges to ensure reliable and high-performance interactions between agents and businesses. The engineer will work on defining standard schemas and developing end-to-end commerce journeys. The role requires versatility and leadership qualities as the team navigates complex distributed systems.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Java or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.
• 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Design and optimize high-throughput serving systems to drive down latency and maintain high service availability.
• Build scalable, automated serving paths for enabling and dynamically routing inventory.
• Establish a highly reliable central source of truth for integration health.
• Define the technical goal and backend architecture for UCP's core serving infrastructure.

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