Staff Software Engineer, Data Protection

Google
New York, New York, United StatesFull-time$207,000–$300,000Posted Aug 31, 2026

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with distributed compute environments, software

development, big data analytics, cloud computing including virtualization,

hosted services, multi tenant cloud infrastructures, storage systems or

content delivery networks.

  • Experience with software development in C/C++, C#, Java, Python or Go.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed

systems or networks, and experience with compute technologies, storage, and

hardware architecture.

  • Experience with Google- scale infrastructure.

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.

We build and maintains data protection capabilities that integrate across

Google’s storage, data processing, and AI stacks. Our infrastructure provides

fine-grained policy enforcement, access filtering, and guardrails for data

handling systems and emerging AI workloads. By building friction-free,

standardized protections directly into foundational platforms, we help

engineering teams across Alphabet launch and iterate on products quickly while

maintaining high security and privacy standards.

Our team thrives on strong collaboration, high autonomy, and mutual respect. We

bring a pragmatic mindset to balancing long-term infrastructure health with

customer needs, while fostering an open culture and a healthy work-life balance

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products.

We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer

platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the

essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our

users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across

Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and

strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique

opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure optimizing cost, latency,

and reliability.

  • Partner cross-organizationally to integrate our infra into foundational

Google systems.

  • Build developer-first solutions that maximize company-wide adoption with

minimal toil.

Responsibilities

  • Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure optimizing cost, latency, and reliability.
  • Partner cross-organizationally to integrate our infra into foundational Google systems.
  • Build developer-first solutions that maximize company-wide adoption with minimal toil.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with distributed compute environments, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing including virtualization, hosted services, multi tenant cloud infrastructures, storage systems or content delivery networks.
  • Experience with software development in C/C++, C#, Java, Python or Go.

Benefits

  • 20% bonus target
  • equity
  • benefits

Skills mentioned

Distributed SystemsSystem DesignCloud ComputingPerformance OptimizationC++C#JavaPythonGoSoftware Testing

About Google

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