Software Engineer, Reef Intent Engine

Share Staff Software Engineer, Reef Intent Engine

Google place San Jose, CA, USA ;
Kirkland, WA, USA ; +1 more

X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Jose, CA, USA;
Kirkland, WA, USA;
New York, NY, USA
.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
• Experience designing software architecture for applications, including AI/ML systems.
• Experience in cloud computing, with a focus on AI/ML, data analytics, or data engineering.
• Experience maintaining technical infrastructure for computing environments supporting AI/ML workloads.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture and development methodologies (e.g., modernizing legacy applications, application performance profiling and tuning, container technology).

• Experience building AI agent harnesses, MCP servers, LLM evaluation pipelines, or neuro-symbolic systems that verify agent infrastructure actions.
• Experience with cloud security governance, autonomous remediation, IAM policy automation, VPC Service Controls, OPA, and asset drift detection.
• Experience designing large-scale Cloud Fin Ops, billing attribution, or automated capacity and waste reclamation systems.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform resource management, multi-organization hierarchies, cloud billing, IAM, VPC-SC, and internal production infrastructure.
• Experience converging fragmented internal tooling into cohesive, cloud-native developer platforms.

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.

The Hybrid Cloud Environment team's mission is to empower Googlers and AI agents to build faster, safer, and more efficiently on Google Cloud. We develop and operate Reef, Alphabet's unified, cloud-native development platform. Reef abstracts the complexities of infrastructure, security, and financial management, enabling users—from human developers to autonomous coding agents in Gemini—to go from high-level intent to a running, production-ready, and compliant…