Senior Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product Architecture

Google Google · Big Tech · Austin, TX +3

This role focuses on defining and driving enterprise-wide architectural standards, alignment, scalability, and efficiency for Google's global corporate infrastructure. The goal is to ensure the infrastructure remains innovative, flexible, and aligned with business strategy. The role involves advocating for excellent engineering standards, modernizing system design, and cultivating a high-caliber technical culture to build resilient, state-of-the-art platforms. It's part of the Corp Eng team, which builds business solutions for internal Google use.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work collaboratively with the broader Architecture community to design, develop, and implement enterprise-wide architectural standards, guidelines, principles, and policies.
  2. Drive the collective creation and adoption of reusable templates, artifacts, reference models, and design patterns that foster scalability and reduce portfolio redundancy across Corporate Engineering.
  3. Establish baseline metrics, frameworks, and modern paradigms for technical excellence, pushing engineering teams toward system resilience, high availability, and optimal code maintainability.
  4. Direct the transition from legacy architectural models to cutting-edge cloud-native patterns, decoupled event-driven structures, and scalable APIs across the entire Corporate Engineering landscape.
  5. Partner closely with Pillar Leads to define and execute comprehensive asset rationalization strategies, actively identifying systems approaching end-of-life and mapping related dependencies. Act as a technical consultant for transformation initiatives, product directors, and strategic corporate integrations, translating complex capabilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 6 years of strategic management leading global, matrixed technical teams or cross-functional architectural initiatives
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products

Nice to have

  • 14 years of experience in technology, software engineering, or corporate enterprise architecture
  • Experience developing architectural strategies across a diverse portfolio of internal systems within a complex, highly regulated global organization of large scale

What the JD emphasized

  • highly regulated global organization