Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and developing infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing, tuning, or building vector search systems (e.g., ANN approximate nearest neighbor indexing, vector embeddings management, hybrid lexical-vector searches, and co-located metadata storage).
• Experience architecting and deploying large-scale systems across any major Cloud platform.
• Expert-level knowledge of distributed systems—specifically data partitioning, replication, consistency models, and the trade-offs of building stateful versus serverless components.
• Strong background in backend systems engineering, including high-throughput data access layers, custom API design, concurrency controls, and persistent storage engines (e.g., Spanner, Key-Value stores).

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the technical execution and scoping of highly complex, ambiguous projects to systematically unblock core product limitations. You will turn open-ended scaling and performance issues into tractable, delivered systems.
• Drive the physical design and implementation decisions that ensure the backend system performs at scale.
• Build solutions that are flexible enough to offer internal tooling capabilities to consuming products, while reliably managing massive query volumes.
• Maintain a strong, direct presence by contributing to critical, code paths, authoring comprehensive technical designs, and performing code reviews.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in cost-performance, query latency, and throughput to keep latency curves flat as datasets grow.

Perks and Benefits

• Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Opportunity to work at Google Cloud, applying cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment.