Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
About The Position
Google software engineers develop technologies that help billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information. Engineers work on projects critical to Google’s needs, with opportunities to move between teams and projects as the business evolves. The role calls for versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for solving problems across the full stack. Using technical expertise, the engineer will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. This role is within Google Cloud, which provides enterprise-grade solutions and tools to help organizations digitally transform and address business challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 7 years of full-stack development experience across back-end codebases such as Java, Python, Go, or C++, and front-end technologies such as JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, or equivalent.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing and launching software products.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with cloud development and building large-scale systems.
- Prior Tech Lead or other engineering leadership experience.
- Ability to work across teams, build relationships, influence senior managers, and manage multiple complex priorities.
- Strong software engineering and system design skills.
- Self-driven, passionate, and inclined to solve complex and ambiguous problems.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end technical architecture for secure-by-design (SbD) AI Applications and Policy Set Manager (PSM), coordinating preventative and detective controls across organization policy, IAM Deny, principal access boundary (PAB), VPC service controls, and AI application perimeters.
- Architect pre-deployment security assessment, policy simulation and dry-run evaluation, and automated drift detection and remediation pipelines across first-party and third-party cloud environments.
- Shape the technical roadmap and detection architecture for control plane threat detection and shadow AI discovery, including discovering and governing unregistered AI agents, MCP servers, and inference workloads.
- Serve as an organizational technical authority across SCC’s Control Plane, Data Plane, Compliance, Threats, and Agentic Security surfaces; lead high-level design reviews, resolve cross-organization architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering standards.
- Mentor and develop L5/L6 Tech Leads and executive engineers across distributed engineering hubs in Kirkland/Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables; design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Benefits
- 25% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits are referenced, with further information linked on Google’s careers benefits page.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
