Technical Lead, Staff Software Engineer

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.

One of the top Shopping priorities is excelling at inventory selection. In this role, you'll own several major pieces of the infrastructure and will be responsible for the comprehensiveness and quality of the Shopping Graph. You'll be responsible for defining the strategy and partnering with teams to leverage ML-based approaches to scale our data extraction systems. You'll be responsible for the backend powering "Autofeeds for Everyone", an externally visible, merchant-facing automated feed management solution used by merchants and uploading offers daily.

People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today’s digital world.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance and lead an engineering team with a focus on Data mining, Experiments, Logging, Metrics, and the associated infrastructure, on-call rotations, and cross-Product Area client support that entails.
• Define metrics and develop roadmaps for successfully improving Buyable corpus comprehensiveness and quality and widen its applications in Shopping and beyond.
• Partner closely with counterparts in Search and Core Infrastructure organizations to leverage horizontal tools and discuss partnerships and roadmaps which increase their utility for Shopping use-cases.
• Create new-to-Google infrastructure and programs which enable step-function improvements in Shopping corpus.
• Partner with teams throughout Shopping to maximize success.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience architecting and developing software for scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience in building large-scale infrastructure offering.
• Ability to exemplify Google’s values in diversity, inclusion, and respect.
• Collaborative working style and ability to lead projects with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate and influence the strategies for key product areas.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)