Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure 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. We build the open-source, developer-first orchestration and runtime foundations that power modern AI and autonomous agent workloads. Our team combines deep distributed-systems and upstream open-source leadership with fast-paced, applied exploration: we build in the open, partner closely with frontier AI labs, external framework and harness maintainers, and iterate rapidly with the developer community to shape industry-wide standards for AI and agentic computing. In this role, you'll define and drive the technical architecture of Google Cloud's open-source agent platform and developer substrate. As a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you will set multi-quarter technical direction across developer experience, stateful agent execution, secure isolation, and ecosystem-wide interoperability. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits