Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core, Media Solutions

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Core, Media Solutions _corporate_fare_ Google _place_ San Jose, CA, USA **Mid** Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area. **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. + 5 years of experience programming in C++. + 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. + 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture. **Preferred qualifications:** + Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. + 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. + 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. + Experience developing accessible technologies. **About the job** Our team provides the Google-scale media (image, video, multimodal) indexing to create the media-rich corpora that enable visually appealing Search results that include AIM and Discover, media-rich Gemini training datasets, Google Lens capabilities, and more. To this end, we focus on building scalable and reliable infrastructure that drives Google’s capability to provide relevant and engaging results through multimodal understanding. As we shift to the AI era, our work is critical to providing rapid media signal iteration for training dataset curation, and the foundational video and image indexing architecture that can leverage the full power of Gemini to unlock the next generation of AI-powered content understanding. Joining our team means having a huge, visible impact internally and externally as we enrich AI-driven user experiences. 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) . **Responsibilities** + Write and test product or system development code. + Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality. + Lead efforts to modernize Google's foundational media indexing architecture by designing a seamless, automated pipeline where signal owners can self-onboard with minimal friction. + Collaborate closely across the stack with teams from data indexing, content ingestion, content understanding, storage, and serving, to identify the problems, align the agenda, and transform the indexing capabilities to support the growing indexing needs across Google. + C++ is the primary implementation language, with Python and GSQL for data selection and analysis. 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