Senior Staff Software Engineer, Production PKIS

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 match

Paid time off 20 days

Sick leave 40 hours/year

Sick leave Seattle 69 hours

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Paid holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google LLC seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Production PKIS to architect and steward the PKI foundations across Google’s planetary-scale production environments. You will drive cryptographic identity, scoped authorization, and high-assurance trust boundaries with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes leading large-scale systems, influencing architecture, and coordinating with Security Leadership and Cloud Foundations to ensure robust security and reliability across production

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.

Responsibilities

• Define the overarching multi-year architectural blueprint across the domains to prevent technical fragmentation.
• Lead cross-domain design reviews and establish unified cryptographic and API design standards.
• Author and drive the 3-5 year technical goal for production identity and security mandates.
• Align stakeholders on priorities and drive cross-cutting technical consistency across sub-teams.
• Partner with Security Leadership, Cloud Foundations, Infrasec SRE, CorpEng, and Hardware Security teams to align security boundaries and roadmaps.
• Lead operational excellence, multi-region fault tolerance, automated key rotations, and disaster recovery readiness across all production services.

Skills

C++ programming

Design & architecture

Testing & launching software products

Cross-functional leadership

PKI expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Production PKIS

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: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience setting multi-team technical strategy or acting as a Lead Architect/Tech Lead for mission-critical, and large-scale systems.
• Deep technical expertise in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), applied cryptography (X.509, cryptographic key lifecycles, asymmetric/symmetric algorithms), and identity/token architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate cross-functional organizational dynamics, build consensus among executive leadership stakeholders, and lead geographically distributed 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.

Prod Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) builds and operates the foundational cryptographic and identity infrastructure that secures Google's planetary-scale production environments and sovereign cloud deployments. Every service, machine, workload, and administrative action across Google relies on our platform for cryptographically verified identity, scoped authorization, and high-assurance trust boundaries.

Our organization is structured around three sub‑teams to enable our core user journeys:

• Identity: Empowers production entities to prove identity and associated security attributes, owning root-of-trust management, full-lifecycle credential issuance, and revocation infrastructure.
• Platform: Enables Google engineering teams and PKI operators to deploy and operate automated, self-service PKI stacks with minimal operational toil and sustaining cost.
• Delegation: Enables authenticated principals, distributed workloads, and autonomous AI agents to delegate scoped subsets of permissions dynamically, safely, and transparently.

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

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• Define the overarching multi-year architectural blueprint across the domains to prevent technical fragmentation. Lead cross-domain design reviews, establish unified cryptographic and API design standards, and resolve complex architectural trade-offs across sub-teams.
• Author and drive the 3-5 year technical goal for production identity, anticipating industry shifts in post-quantum readiness, confidential computing, and agentic workflows. Translate enterprise-wide security mandates including Regional Security Isolation (RSI) and Cryptographic Hygiene programs into actionable, sequenced engineering roadmaps.
• Align stakeholders on priorities, shared dependencies, and architectural best practices. Guide specialized working groups to drive cross-cutting technical consistency across sub-teams.
• Partner closely with Security Leadership, Cloud Foundations, Infrasec SRE, CorpEng, and Hardware Security teams to align security boundaries and platform roadmaps.
• Lead operational excellence, multi-region fault tolerance, automated key rotations, and disaster recovery readiness across all production services.

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