Technical Lead, Staff Software Engineer

Google is seeking a Technical Lead, Staff Software Engineer to join their Commerce team, focusing on Shopping infrastructure and experiences. This role is crucial in developing and maintaining the Shopping Graph, with a particular emphasis on inventory selection excellence. The position involves leading engineering initiatives in data mining, experiments, and metrics while managing infrastructure that supports merchant-facing automated feed management solutions.

The role combines technical leadership with strategic thinking, requiring the ability to partner across various teams including Search and Core Infrastructure organizations. You'll be responsible for defining metrics and roadmaps to improve the Buyable corpus comprehensiveness and quality, while also creating new infrastructure programs that enable significant improvements in the Shopping corpus.

As a technical leader, you'll guide an engineering team focused on data mining, experiments, logging, and metrics, while maintaining on-call rotations and cross-Product Area client support. The position requires extensive experience in software development, particularly with data structures/algorithms, and a proven track record in testing and launching software products.

Google's Commerce team serves over a billion shopping interactions daily, making this role integral to the company's mission of being an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers. You'll work in an environment that values diversity, inclusion, and respect, while contributing to technology that impacts billions of users globally.

The ideal candidate will bring fresh ideas to areas including distributed computing, large-scale system design, and artificial intelligence. This role offers opportunities to work on critical projects with the flexibility to evolve as the business grows. You'll be at the forefront of developing solutions that help both consumers in their shopping journey and merchants in connecting with their customers effectively.