Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Labs, Mixboard

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience programming in Java or Kotlin.
• 3 years of experience designing, building, testing, maintaining, and launching scalable backend services.
• Experience developing and maintaining services within a large-scale, distributed systems environment.
• Experience developing and designing APIs (e.g., REST and gRPC).
• Experience with globally-distributed, relational database systems (e.g., Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB).

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in interacting with AI platforms/APIs like Uniserve, Gemini API, LMRoot, or in debugging issues with AI models.
• Experience coding in C++ or Python.
• Experience with front-end and user interface development.

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.

Mixboard is a new Google Labs canvas for visual brainstorming. Its multi-modal platform allows you to seamlessly create and edit text and images together, powered by an intuitive AI backend for a powerful creative experience. This team drives rapid iteration in a critical environment focused on shipping code and staying close to the user, and is driven by iterative progress, bringing purpose to their work, and building resilient systems designed to learn from failure.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, monitor, and manage services in production, including on-call responsibilities.
• Develop and prototype the next generation of AI technologies and solutions for new product features, and support their launch in production.
• Work closely with front-end engineers and research teams to define APIs and apply large language model and multi-modal techniques.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of agentic applications and AI prompting strategies.