Senior Staff Cloud & AI Platform Architect

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision

Retirement 401(k)

PTO 20 days

Sick time Seattle 69h

Maternity leave 28-30w

Baby bonding leave 18w

Holidays 13 days

Equity

Bonus target

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to drive backend platform work on Cloud Run and AI workloads in Seattle. You will lead high-impact projects, shape architectural direction, and mentor distributed teams across product and engineering. The role offers exposure to serverless design, multi-tenant security, and scalable backend services.

You will collaborate with executives to modernize stack, deliver reliable back-end systems, and contribute to open source projects within Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with serverless computing concepts and technologies on public cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Oversee architectural strategy and the rollout of core back-end services for Cloud Run, primarily emphasizing the data plane to support the evolving needs of AI workloads and agents.
• Collaborate with executive product and engineering leadership to define and realize a long-term goal for stack modernization and platform sustainability.
• Drive operational excellence by identifying and executing systematic enhancements to platform health.

Skills

C++ programming

Software architecture

Serverless cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree / equivalent

Tools

Google Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

App Engine

Kubernetes

Knative

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to drive backend platform work on Cloud Run and AI workloads in Seattle. You will lead high-impact projects, shape architectural direction, and mentor distributed teams across product and engineering. The role offers exposure to serverless design, multi-tenant security, and scalable backend services.

You will collaborate with executives to modernize stack, deliver reliable back-end systems, and contribute to open source projects within Google Cloud.