Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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.

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).

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.