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Staff Software Engineer, GCS Object Context and Search
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Job Description
- Lead the design, architecture, and optimization of key components of GCS's vector database and semantic search engines (C++), focusing on high-performance storage and low-latency retrieval at planet scale.
- Own the technical roadmap and execution strategy for major sub-systems, collaborating closely with executive technical leadership to align with the overall project and GCS goals.
- Partner with adjacent infrastructure teams to design and build faster, more reliable, and highly scalable systems that operate within GCS's strict resource and throughput constraints.
- Establish engineering excellence standards for testing, diagnostics, and observability, ensuring the system is performant, reliable, and easy to debug in production.
- Identify and address systemic engineering bottlenecks, generalizing common patterns to improve development velocity and system health across the team.