Staff Software Engineer — App Hub (Distributed Systems)

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the App Hub to shape the distributed infrastructure and governance across Google Cloud applications. The role emphasizes owning outcomes and driving architectural decisions in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration, design and deploy scalable software solutions, and contribute to the evolution of our platform to empower developers and customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience, with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of software design and architecture experience.
• 5 years of distributed application development, operations, service networking, policy management, or service governance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead for the application-centric effort to support Google Cloud’s governance and operations.
• Design, scope, implement, and deploy robust distributed infrastructure, balancing functionality, reliability, throughput, latency, velocity and cost.
• Understand the application or performance monitoring space, identify problem areas, align with dependency teams, prioritize and drive consensus.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Decision making

Problem solving

Stakeholder influence

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS (preferred)

Tools

Testing & launch experience

Software design & architecture

Job description

Google Sunnyvale seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the App Hub to shape the distributed infrastructure and governance across Google Cloud applications. The role emphasizes owning outcomes and driving architectural decisions in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration, design and deploy scalable software solutions, and contribute to the evolution of our platform to empower developers and customers worldwide.