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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions

2 Months ago • 8-13 Years • Research & Development • $237,000 PA - $337,000 PA

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tensorflow

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Job Description

This Senior Staff Software Engineer role at Google focuses on recommendations, rankings, and predictions. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing large-scale software solutions. The position requires technical leadership on high-impact projects, managing project priorities, and facilitating alignment across teams. It involves leading the design and implementation of recommendation systems, optimizing ML infrastructure, and guiding model architecture development. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in software development, ML design, and building recommendation systems, particularly with TensorFlow. Experience with data structures/algorithms, software testing and launch, and software design/architecture is crucial.

Must have:

8+ years software development experience
5+ years ML design & infrastructure optimization
5+ years building recommendation systems
TensorFlow model development experience
Data structures/algorithms expertise
Software testing and launch experience
Software design and architecture experience

Good to have:

Master's or PhD in a technical field
Technical leadership experience
Experience in complex, matrixed organizations

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
5 years of experience leading ML design and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, embedding) in production, and experience building architecture in different modeling domains.
Experience developing and training TensorFlow models.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects.

About the job

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.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $237,000-$337,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
Lead the design and implementation of recommendation systems, optimize ML infrastructure, and guide the development of model architecture.

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$237.0K - $337.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$287.0K/yr avg.

Worldwide

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