Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google One

Google LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google One is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and deliver high-impact cloud storage features. You will guide a distributed engineering team, drive system design across modules, and ensure scalable, secure, and efficient implementations for billions of users.

The role emphasizes leadership in complex projects, collaboration across Google’s infrastructure teams, and the ability to evolve technology with the business needs of Google One.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 8+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages, plus data structures and algorithms.
• 5+ years of design/architecture experience; testing/launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Lead the architectural roadmap for the team balancing user conversion and rapid experimentation with reliability and cost efficiency.
• Coach a distributed team of engineers and align goals across teams.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Skills

Software development experience

Design and architecture

Testing and launches

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering or CS

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google One

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, 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 One (G1) is Google's membership for personal cloud storage and Google's cutting-edge AI features. G1 is one of Google's fastest growing subscriptions, with over 150 million subscribers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact team, shaping the future of our subscriber experiences, premium features and business growth initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Lead the architectural roadmap for the team - balancing high-intent user conversion and rapid experimentation with high system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Collaborate across Google infrastructure teams to align systems and daily engineering execution with overall company priorities.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

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