Software Engineer, Google Photos Search

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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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

In this role, you will be responsible for Search and you will have an ambitious roadmap in 2026 to help Googles more than billion users by developing innovative search experiences powered by AI, across the massive scale backend infrastructure.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

Write code to improve the quality and relevance of Google Photos search results.
Develop tools and infrastructure for search quality evaluation, datasets and benchmarks.
Use data to drive decisions and improve Search quality.
Work closely with other Engineers, Product Managers, and Researchers to improve Search quality.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
Experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C++) and other relevant frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

2 years of experience in software development with a focus on designing and building scalable, high-quality software systems.
Experience in building AI solutions iterating on quality and evaluations.
Experience in Search.
Experience in designing, maintaining, and improving large-scale engineering systems.
Ability to understand various sets of users and their behavior, and fine tune user experience for everyone.
Excellent communication, and collaboration skills with stakeholders across all levels of the organization.