Software Engineer, ContribService, Multimodal Service Solution, AI, UGC

Mid • On-site

$141,000 - $202,000/yr

Sunnyvale, CA

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development in C++ programming languages.
2 years of experience with backend software development.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Experience in any one of these: Java, SQL, Flume, or MapReduce.
Experience with Go, large-scale data processing, SQL, scaffolding, CDPush, and Flume.

About the job

The ContribService team mission is to build infrastructure solutions to help product teams ingest, store, process, enrich, index and serve multimodal user content. This includes traditional user generated content (UGC) (e.g., place reviews in Google Maps, app reviews in Play Store, ratings on Search, etc.), user-prompted AI-generated UGC (e.g., AI-generated image in Gemini), or agentic content created autonomously for user.

In this role, you will accelerate GenAI customers through user owned or prompted files and media or multimodal contributions for products including Gemini, Shopping, and Search and will deliver full Media support (image, video, audio, files) to onboard all Geo UGC Media and Photos Backend clients. You will stay true to the mission to provide User Data protection at scale and will ensure data protection, safety, and compliance are enforced for current and future regulatory regimes (including DMA and DSA, and also the adoption of the Google-wide Data Protection Standard). You will also accelerate data enrichment (e.g., AI signals generation) and content understanding.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + 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

Work to build systems that are production-ready, reliable, secure, very large-scale, multi-tenant, and sensitive to latency and cost.
Work directly with product teams to power their products, for e.g., Gemini/Bard, Google Play Store, Google Maps infrastructure, Google Search, etc.
Participate in a 24/7 tier-1 or tier-2 on-call/onduty rotation.

Google

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.