Senior Cloud Security & Privacy Engineer

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Cloud Security and Privacy team seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to build secure, scalable systems for Google Cloud services used by millions of customers worldwide.

You will design, develop, test, and deploy software, mentor junior engineers, participate in design reviews, and drive quality across product and infrastructure teams to advance security and privacy capabilities at scale. This role emphasizes collaboration and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development in C++, C, or Python with DS&A.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching software; 1 year in design/architecture.
• 3 years building infrastructure, distributed systems, or compute/storage hardware.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in or lead design reviews to select technologies.
• Review code and provide feedback on best practices.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content.
• Triage issues and diagnose impact on hardware, network, or service operations.

Skills

C++

C

Python

Data structures & algorithms

Software testing

Software design

Distributed systems

Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google's Cloud Security and Privacy team seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to build secure, scalable systems for Google Cloud services used by millions of customers worldwide.

You will design, develop, test, and deploy software, mentor junior engineers, participate in design reviews, and drive quality across product and infrastructure teams to advance security and privacy capabilities at scale. This role emphasizes collaboration and reliability.