Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Products and Systems, Google Photos

• Build and ship 0-to-1 agent features end-to-end, including proactive agents that surface timely suggestions to users and long-running background agents that retrieve photos, run goal models item by item, and organize a user's library into dynamic spaces.
  
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Coach a distributed team of engineers.
  
• Partner closely with UX, PM, and teammates to turn rough ideas into working prototypes on real photo data, and collaborate with other Photos and Gemini teams to bring validated features into the main app.
• Design and own the 1-to-100 production backend systems needed to take successful experiments to 100M+ users without a full rewrite, covering async task execution, state streaming, data/byte permissions, and tool/MCP interfaces.
  
• Work across the client and server stack to ship faster updates to live experiments.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 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.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.