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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Feed Recommendation Infrastructure

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Compensation
$262–364K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead infrastructure work for an AI-in-the-loop experimentation and productionization platform supporting Google’s personalized recommendation feed. The role focuses on accelerating product experimentation and scaling successful ideas, while providing technical leadership, coordinating launches, and building prototypes. The engineer will manage project priorities and deliverables and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software DevelopmentLarge-Scale InfrastructureDistributed SystemsNetworksCompute TechnologiesStorageHardware ArchitectureDesign and ArchitectureSoftware TestingSoftware LaunchingGenerative AI IntegrationLLM Workflow IntegrationAI/ML Workload DesignData Structures and AlgorithmsTechnical LeadershipRecommendation SystemsRetrievalPredictionRankingPersonalizationSearch QualityEmbedding

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8+ Years Software Development7+ Years Infrastructure or Systems Experience5+ Years Design and ArchitectureMaster's or PhD in Related Field8+ Years Data Structures and Algorithms5+ Years Technical Leadership3+ Years Complex Organization Experience

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.

  • 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.

  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows, and designing distributed systems for large-scale AI/ML workloads.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

  • Experience in building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding) in production.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Discover's AI transformation aims to evolve the platform from a traditional recommendation feed into an intelligent, GenAI-powered engine that provides deep personalization for billions of users. To unlock step-function user growth, we must radically accelerate how fast we test and ship product ideas: compressing the end-to-end cycle from a hypothesis to live experiments down to O(days).

As a Tech Lead, you will join our Infrastructure team and lead the charge in building Growth Acceleration Infrastructure: an AI-in-the-loop experimentation and productionization platform that empowers product teams to validate ideas rapidly and scale winners to our users.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Convert strategy to a roadmap and produce short term and long term plans.

  • Coordinate development across teams and drive launches.

  • Build prototype for proof of concept.

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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How this job compares

Set against the 41,882 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$262–364K/yr
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,782 salary ranges
  • US median$135–218K/yr33,226 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $313K, is 53% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 9,705 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,882 across the US. 8% 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 — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,350 postings).
Education
13,565 of the 41,882 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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