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Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Products and Systems, Google Photos

Google· Google Photos
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Mountain View, CA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer responsible for building agent features and the backend systems enabling scalable, proactive and background agents within Google Photos, collaborating across Photos and Gemini teams and leading a small full-stack engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

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.

Skills

Required:Programming languages (C++, Java, Python, Kotlin, Go)Software testing and product launchSoftware design and architectureIntegration of generative AI tools or LLM interfaces
Nice to have:Technical leadership

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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