Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Lead, Trusted Partner Cloud

Google Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Trusted Partner Cloud team seeks a Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Lead to shape architecture for large-scale cloud infrastructure. You will guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and coordinate across product teams in a fast-paced environment.

Bring deep expertise in C++, distributed systems, incident response, monitoring, and automation to drive reliability and efficiency, including AI-driven tooling to reduce manual work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• Experience architecting, deploying, or managing large-scale cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience managing incident response, mitigating failures, and configuring monitoring or alert systems for production environments.
• Experience building automation, internal tooling, or AI-driven solutions to replace manual operational work.

Skills

C++ programming

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Incident response

Monitoring systems

Automation tooling

AI-driven solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Lead, Trusted Partner Cloud

info_outline X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• Experience architecting, deploying, or managing large-scale cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience managing incident response, mitigating failures, and configuring monitoring or alert systems for production environments.
• Experience building automation, internal tooling, or AI-driven solutions to replace manual operational work.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, particularly GCE and their underlying resource needs.
• Experience defining and implementing new processes in complex organizational structures, coupled with excellent communication skills for presenting to and influencing senior leadership.
• Experience working alongside external partners or operating within highly regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of large-scale production infrastructure and capacity management tooling.
• Proven ability to lead through influence in a matrixed environment, successfully coordinating work across many different engineering teams.

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.

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