Senior Software Engineer, Search, QSpam
Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years software development; 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year software design and architecture; 3 years large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; 2 years large-scale data processing, algorithms, and statistics. Preferred: 5 years data structures and algorithms; 2 years Machine Learning, Spam Detection, Anomaly Detection, and Search Quality; 1 year technical leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
About the job
Develops large-scale systems and algorithms that identify and filter spam and inorganic activity in Google Search logs, using heuristic, machine-learning, and LLM-powered approaches.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance spam-detection systems and algorithms.
- Write and test code; triage and resolve product or system issues.
- Review code and contribute to documentation or educational content.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software products; 1 year in software design and architecture.
- 3 years in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; 2 years in large-scale data processing, algorithms, and statistics; experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field; 5 years of data structures and algorithms experience.
- 2 years of experience with Machine Learning, Spam Detection, Anomaly Detection, and Search Quality; 1 year in technical leadership; experience developing accessible technologies.
Pay
$174000 - $252000 (USD) base salary
Tools
QLogs, ML, LLMs, Machine Learning
AI focus
Uses AI and machine-learning techniques, including LLMs, to detect spam and improve analyst efficiency; requires experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.
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