Staff API Proxy Engineer for Scalable Cloud Platform

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA, to work on API Proxy projects within the Google Cloud ecosystem. You will enhance platform capabilities, develop robust control plane features in C++, and scale the system to handle hundreds of millions of QPS while ensuring security and reliability across services.

The role emphasizes modernization of Cloud Policy Enforcement, integration with ESF PDP, and collaboration with partner teams to converge ESF efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the API Proxy front-end for Google's One Platform, ensuring highly performant translation between Stubby, gRPC, and HTTP protocols at massive scale.
• Develop robust control plane capabilities using C++ and distributed systems, integrating critical features like authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, and monitoring.
• Implement resilient architectures handling hundreds of millions of Queries Per Second (QPS), incorporating load shedding and error sanitization to protect Google and Cloud APIs.
• Modernize Cloud Policy Enforcement via the Enterprise Security Framework (ESF) PDP framework, and strengthen Model Armor support for OneMCP and the Agent Cloud Ecosystem.
• Leverage Envoy Proxy expertise to improve platform support for service extensions like ExtProc and partner with engineering teams to converge Cloud ESF and ESF.

Skills

C++ programming

Software testing

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is hiring a Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA, to work on API Proxy projects within the Google Cloud ecosystem. You will enhance platform capabilities, develop robust control plane features in C++, and scale the system to handle hundreds of millions of QPS while ensuring security and reliability across services.

The role emphasizes modernization of Cloud Policy Enforcement, integration with ESF PDP, and collaboration with partner teams to converge ESF efforts.