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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10 years of experience in software development with 2 years as a feature/capability Technical Lead.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

About the job

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.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical goal and strategy within the IAM domain, encompassing security controls and foundational platforms.

As Staff Software Engineer for the policy, platform, and AI teams, you will guide the technical direction for Organization Policies, Regional Security Isolation, Policy AI, and the GCP compliance platform, enhancing reliability and development velocity. You will shape technical and design decisions across teams while contributing to organizational goals, roadmaps, strategies, and operational excellence. You will lead architectural evolutions to accommodate emerging use cases and agents while meeting rigorous scaling and performance requirements.

In this role, you will demonstrate leadership and technical knowledge, successfully balance product quality, customer needs, and business goals to develop secure, reliable, and scalable GCP systems.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale architectural and reliability initiatives in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data plane, ranging from proposals and designs to working scalable and reliable code to activities beyond coding: metrics, documentation, operations. Evolve current architecture to support increasing new features.
• Develop your domain expertise in building and operating hyper-reliable GCP ring-0 infrastructure
• Have a strong bias for action, including effectively balancing on-call and operational activities with feature development; hold strong and technical judgement, driving cross-team/cross-organization execution and increasing organizations execution velocity.
• Provide technical oversight to ensure excellence in architecture, implementation, and long-term maintainability of our core platforms. Reduce technical/design/implementation ambiguity, keeping technical debt under control.
• Foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and investing in developing and growing team members.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.