Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Marketplace Infra

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure for Cloud Marketplace. You will own architectural direction, design high-volume backend systems, and mentor teams while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions.

This role emphasizes solving ambiguous problems, leading technical direction, and delivering measurable impact. Expertise in distributed systems, Java, Python, and compute/storage technologies is valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience programming in Java.
• 5+ years testing, and launching software products.
• 5+ years building large-scale infrastructure or related compute/storage/ hardware.
• 3+ years software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction, goal, and long-term architectural roadmap for the Cloud MarketPlace ecosystem, aligning it with broader Cloud product goals.
• Write and test system development code to address complex, open-ended problems, designing robust infrastructure solutions that reduce operational complexity and design debt.
• Triage system issues and debug, track, or resolve them by analyzing their root causes and evaluating their impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Mentor team members, influence technical decisions across the wider organization, and review code to ensure best practices such as accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (like Product) to build foundational capabilities for Cloud MarketPlace, and contribute to technical documentation or educational content based on system updates.

Skills

Java programming

Software testing

Distributed systems

Compute technologies

Software design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Python

Job description

Google Sunnyvale is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure for Cloud Marketplace. You will own architectural direction, design high-volume backend systems, and mentor teams while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions.

This role emphasizes solving ambiguous problems, leading technical direction, and delivering measurable impact. Expertise in distributed systems, Java, Python, and compute/storage technologies is valued.