Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, California, seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, to lead cross-team initiatives and shape scalable end-to-end system design. You will mentor senior engineers, drive architectural decisions, and deliver robust software across the full stack.

The role requires 8+ years in software development and 5+ years in design/architecture, with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Cloud development and large-scale systems experience are preferred, with strong cross-team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with cloud development and building large-scale systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical architecture for secure by design for AI Applications.
• Architect pre-deployment security assessment and automated drift detection pipelines.
• Shape the technical roadmap and detection architecture for control plane threat detection.
• Serve as an organizational technical authority across multiple surfaces; lead design reviews and set engineering standards.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers across distributed hubs.

Skills

Years of software development

System design

Leadership experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with cloud development and building large-scale systems.
• Prior Tech Lead or other engineering leadership experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work across teams, build relationships, influence senior managers, and successfully manage multiple complex priorities.
• Strong software engineering and system design skills.
• Self-driven, passionate, and an inclination to solve complex and ambiguous problems.

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.With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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.With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Drive the end-to-end technical architecture for secure by design (SbD) for AI Applications and Policy Set Manager (PSM), orchestrating preventative and detective controls across organization policy, IAM Deny, principal access boundary (PAB), VPC service controls, and AI application perimeters.
• Architect pre-deployment security assessment, policy simulation/dry-run evaluation, and automated drift detection and remediation pipelines across first-party and third-party cloud environments.
• Shape the technical roadmap and detection architecture for control plane threat detection and shadow AI discovery (discovering and governing unregistered AI agents, MCP servers, and inference workloads).
• Serve as an organizational technical authority across SCC’s Control Plane, Data Plane, Compliance, Threats, and Agentic Security surfaces—leading high-level design reviews, resolving cross-organization architectural trade-offs, and establishing engineering standards.
• Mentor and grow L5/L6 Tech Leads and executive engineers across distributed engineering hubs (Kirkland/Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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