Staff Software Engineer, Shopping Graph
Google· Engineering
Zürichfull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Staff Software Engineer role on the Feeds Features team within Google’s Shopping Graph initiative, leading technical direction, design, and execution for Merchant Center experiences and data processing pipelines, with emphasis on AI/ML capabilities, low latency, and scalable infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical designs and drive core implementation (clean code, scalable pipelines, robust inference/serving paths). Balance ambitious AI/ML capabilities with low latency, high throughput, and cost-efficient inference budgets.
- Provide strategic thought leadership, establish multi-quarter technical roadmaps, and manage high-ambiguity quality challenges. Mentor, guide, and elevate junior to mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and high velocity.
- Develop, test, and maintain code for software solutions supporting Google Merchant Center's data ingestion and feed management systems based on defined requirements.
- Apply standard and emerging Google tools, resources, and processes to solve familiar, predefined technical tasks efficiently.
- Utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) and Gemini to help build autoraters for evaluating product data quality and to automate testing workflows.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- 5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
- Experience in prompt engineering, or multi-agent systems.
Skills
Required:Software design and architectureFull stack developmentPrompt engineering or multi-agent systemsData ingestion and feed management
Nice to have:Leadership / mentorshipLLMs and Gemini usage
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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