Senior Staff Engineer, Google Distributed Cloud Air-gapped

1 Month ago • 8-15 Years • Full Stack Development • $248,000 PA - $349,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Staff Engineer role at Google focuses on the Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDCag) software life-cycle management platform. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy and architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across various domains. The role requires providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, designing and implementing solutions for complex technical challenges (e.g., long-term patching, component decoupling, SLSA L4 compliance), and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will establish technical standards and best practices tailored to the unique constraints of secure, air-gapped environments. The position demands extensive experience in full-stack development, software architecture, and technical leadership within a matrixed organization.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 7+ years full-stack development experience
  • 5+ years design & architecture experience
  • Technical leadership & mentorship
  • Experience with Java, Python, Go, or C++
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in a technical field
  • 5+ years in a technical leadership role
  • 3+ years in a matrixed organization
  • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 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.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, a technical related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in a 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.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about

Responsibilities

  • Drive the technical strategy and architecture for the entire Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDCag) software life-cycle management platform, ensure coherence, scalability, reliability, security across build, secure software supply chains (S3C), artifact management, upgrade, and configuration life-cycle domains.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to Engineers and Team Lead across five core teams.
  • Design and implement solutions for technical challenges, such as enabling long-term patch despite Google's Build Horizon policy, architecture for Operable Component decoupling, ensuring SLSA L4 compliance, and scaling upgrade mechanisms for large deployments.
  • Collaborate and influence Product Managers Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and Senior Technical Leaders/Architects across GDCag and dependent Google teams (e.g., Core Developer Tools, Security, Geo/Topsail, specific service owners).
  • Establish technical standards, principles, and best practices for software life-cycle management tailored to the unique constraints of security, air-gapped environments.

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