Staff Software Engineer - Cloud IAM & Policy Platform

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to set technical goals for the IAM domain, including Organization Policies, Regional Security Isolation, Policy AI, and the GCP compliance platform. You will guide architectural decisions across teams and drive reliability and development velocity in a scalable cloud ecosystem.

You will lead architectural evolutions to meet new use cases, balancing product quality, customer needs, and business goals while contributing to Google Cloud’s

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

• Lead large-scale architectural and reliability initiatives in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data plane.
• Develop domain expertise in building and operating hyper-reliable GCP ring-0 infrastructure.
• Balance on-call activities with feature development and drive cross-team execution.
• Provide technical oversight to ensure excellence in architecture, implementation, and long-term maintainability.
• Foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and invest in developing team members.

Skills

C++ programming

Testing & release

Large-scale infra

Software design & architecture

Ownership & decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS or related field

Job description

Google is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA to set technical goals for the IAM domain, including Organization Policies, Regional Security Isolation, Policy AI, and the GCP compliance platform. You will guide architectural decisions across teams and drive reliability and development velocity in a scalable cloud ecosystem.

You will lead architectural evolutions to meet new use cases, balancing product quality, customer needs, and business goals while contributing to Google Cloud’s