Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Responsibilities

The engineer will drive the end-to-end technical architecture for AI application security and orchestrate preventative controls across cloud environments. They will also serve as a technical authority, leading design reviews and mentoring engineering leads across multiple global hubs.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 8 years of software development experience, including 7 years in full-stack development and 5 years in system design. A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

Skills

• Java
• Python
• Go
• C++
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• HTML
• CSS
• System Design
• Cloud Development
• Security Architecture
• Identity and Access Management
• Threat Detection
• Artificial Intelligence
• Technical Leadership
• Software Engineering

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health Insurance

About this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* 8 years of experience in software development.
* 7 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as
Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including
JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.

* 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching
software products.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience with cloud development and building large-scale systems.
* Prior Tech Lead or other engineering leadership experience.
* Demonstrated ability to work across teams, build relationships, influence
senior managers, and successfully manage multiple complex priorities.
* Strong software engineering and system design skills.
* Self-driven, passionate, and an inclination to solve complex and ambiguous
problems.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and
deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance
software solutions.

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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Drive the end-to-end technical architecture for secure by design (SbD) for AI
Applications and Policy Set Manager (PSM), orchestrating 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/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 (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—leading
high-level design reviews, resolving cross-organization architectural
trade-offs, and establishing engineering standards.
* Mentor and grow L5/L6 Tech Leads and executive engineers across distributed
engineering hubs (Kirkland/Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore).

About Google

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