Staff Software Engineer — Modern Governance & Cloud Guardrails

Google

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 207,000 - 300,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick leave 40h/yr (Seattle 69h)

Job summary

Google invites applications for a Staff Software Engineer in Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails. This role is based in Seattle and other US locations, focusing on safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform and driving security policies across teams.

You will lead a consolidated engineering effort, define architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, policy-driven cloud guardrails that balance security and developer velocity.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of software development experience.
Experience in applications security, cryptography, network security, systems security or malware analysis.
Experience with Engineering Tools and Infrastructure.
Experience with Cloud.

Responsibilities

Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, aligning strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
Establish clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, meeting regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
Lead the technical design, evolution, and execution of dynamic security controls, conditional policy actuation via Cloud Tags, and staged, zero-impact roll out pipelines across Alphabet's cloud footprint.
Serve as a technical anchor for the Hybrid Guardrails engineering team, reviewing complex designs, establishing rigorous code and security standards, and mentoring executive engineers and Technical Leads (TLs).
Design intelligent components that dynamically evaluate workload intent, data sensitivity, and maturity stage to enforce appropriate security guardrails without introducing manual exception bottlenecks.