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Staff Software Engineer, Gemini App, Data Engineering, DeepMind

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Mountain View, CAJob$207–300K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and operate data pipelines that deliver telemetry across Gemini surfaces. The role provides technical leadership to scale infrastructure, build durable data products, and drive engineering initiatives across teams. The engineer will work with Data Science, model release, model quality, and feature teams to support analytics, model improvement, and a growing global product.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Apache SparkFlinkBeamAirflowBigQuerySnowflakeLarge-Scale Data PipelinesDistributed Data ProcessingWorkflow OrchestrationGoC++Technical LeadershipBusiness Data Requirements

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Software Development Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

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info_outline XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.

Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Irvine, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with Apache Spark, Flink, Beam, Airflow, or BigQuery/Snowflake or other similar infrastructure.
  • Experience developing, debugging, and supporting large-scale data pipelines.
  • Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and workflow orchestration tools.
  • Experience in Go/C++.
  • Experience in a technical Lead or similar role, ideally setting technical direction for a small group of executive and junior software engineer.
  • Ability to address daily business data requirements, ensure that development obstacles are cleared to maintain the Gemini App's changing growth.

About the job As a part of the Gemini Apps Data Engineering team, you will architect and operate the data pipelines that deliver critical telemetry across all Gemini surfaces. You will combine deep technical expertise with Google-scale operating experience to solve the unique data issues inherent in building a transformative, global product during a time of massive growth! Gemini’s user base is growing continuously and our traffic has sometimes even doubled just over the course of a week. In this role, you will provide the technical leadership necessary to scale our infrastructure. You will architect durable data products and drive critical engineering initiatives across multiple teams to ensure we continue delivering metrics and training data quickly, reliably, and accurately at a massive global scale.

In this role, you will leverage your experience in building and running scalable systems, and utilize modern data warehouse infrastructure at Google, lead a small team of executive and junior engineers to scale the data pipelines that drive Gemini Apps’s analytics and power model and product improvement. You will work directly with key stakeholders, including our Data Science, model release, model quality, and feature teams, as well as teams across DeepMind, to identify and solve key problems to help make Gemini the next billion-user product. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Work closely with our Data Science counterparts in definition and driving the goals for a Modern Data Warehouse.
  • Architect and build scalable batch and real-time pipelines that power experimentation, product analytics, and ML/AI training loops.
  • Own data quality, reliability, and observability end-to-end, including defining and operating Service Level Agreements (SLAs)/ Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical production datasets.
  • Mentor and grow other engineers, raising the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and actionable feedback.
  • Drive cross-functional engineering initiatives that span multiple teams, translating ambiguous requirements into technical designs.

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,360 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$190–275K/yr1,233 salary ranges
  • US median$150–248K/yr6,302 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 10% above the California median midpoint ($230K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,689 open Software Engineering jobs in California and 8,360 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (6,556 postings).
Education
2,201 of the 8,360 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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