Senior Staff Software Engineer: Rust & Virtualization Leader

Google LLC; Seattle (WA); Vor Ort; USD 262.000 - 364.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick leave

Zusammenfassung

Google Seattle is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the modernization of Google's virtualization stack into memory-safe Rust. You will drive cross-team strategy, mentor engineers, and push for agentic AI coding workflows to transform mission-critical C++ systems code.

This role emphasizes high-scale infrastructure, security, and performance. The role involves leading the technical direction across Google Compute Engine and contributing to a broader Rust adoption inside Google,

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in systems software engineering, software architecture, and low-level programming in C++ and Rust.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience architecting and shipping large-scale systems software (e.g., virtualization, hypervisors/VMMs, OS kernels, or cloud infrastructure).
• Experience leading cross-organizational technical strategy and mentoring senior engineers.

Aufgaben

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Execute large-scale transformation of virtualization and host systems code into memory-safe Rust.
• Pioneer agentic coding techniques and AI-assisted migration tooling to accelerate code conversion velocity.

Kenntnisse

Systems software eng

Software architecture

C++ and Rust

Design & architecture

Mentoring senior engineers

Cross-team leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

C++

Rust

Linux/KVM

FFI & interop

Jobbeschreibung

Google Seattle is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the modernization of Google's virtualization stack into memory-safe Rust. You will drive cross-team strategy, mentor engineers, and push for agentic AI coding workflows to transform mission-critical C++ systems code.

This role emphasizes high-scale infrastructure, security, and performance. The role involves leading the technical direction across Google Compute Engine and contributing to a broader Rust adoption inside Google,