Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

About the 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).