Staff Software Engineer, Data Protection

Google Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google New York, NY, USA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Data Protection to drive high-scale infrastructure and data protection across Google’s storage, data processing, and AI stacks. You will influence architecture decisions, own outcomes, and collaborate across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Ideal candidates bring deep experience with large distributed systems, compute/storage hardware, and Google-scale infrastructure, with a track record of delivering secure, scalable, and reliable

Qualifications

• Experience owning outcomes and decision making.
• Solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and storage.

Responsibilities

• Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure optimizing cost, latency, and reliability.
• Partner cross-organizationally to integrate infra into foundational Google systems.
• Build developer-first solutions that maximize adoption with minimal toil.

Skills

Large-scale infrastructure

Distributed systems

Compute/storage hardware

Google-scale infra

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Data Protection

Google New York, NY, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, and experience with compute technologies, storage, and hardware architecture.
• Experience with Google- scale infrastructure.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

We build and maintains data protection capabilities that integrate across Google’s storage, data processing, and AI stacks. Our infrastructure provides fine-grained policy enforcement, access filtering, and guardrails for data handling systems and emerging AI workloads. By building friction-free, standardized protections directly into foundational platforms, we help engineering teams across Alphabet launch and iterate on products quickly while maintaining high security and privacy standards.

Our team thrives on strong collaboration, high autonomy, and mutual respect. We bring a pragmatic mindset to balancing long-term infrastructure health with customer needs, while fostering an open culture and a healthy work-life balance.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure optimizing cost, latency, and reliability.
• Partner cross-organizationally to integrate our infra into foundational Google systems.
• Build developer-first solutions that maximize company-wide adoption with minimal toil.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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