Senior Staff Software Engineer, User Protection

Google Google · Big Tech · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil +1

Senior Staff Software Engineer role focused on technical leadership for platform evolution within User Protection at Google. The role involves replacing legacy operational infrastructure for critical products like Gemini, Gmail, Maps, and Search, ensuring new genAI launches are safer and protected from abuse. It requires collaboration with distributed engineering teams, product management, and stakeholders to define and execute strategy, mentor engineers, and drive technical decisions across the company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely with distributed engineering teams, cross-organization and cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategy.
  2. Collaborate with product management and critical customers regularly to ensure the roadmap is delivering value continuously and is aligned with the strategy.
  3. Work closely with the teams and stakeholders towards delivering on the strategy, unblocking the team on technical decision making and issues.
  4. Communicate the strategy and the roadmap to cross-functional stakeholders and ensure continued alignment/support.
  5. Mentor and grow the team on reliability, security, privacy and engineering best practices.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Nice to have

  • 6 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
  • Experience designing and implementing any of the following: large-scale distributed systems, APIs used by other developers, ML (Machine Learning) systems.
  • Experience collaborating with and guiding a large team of engineers and TLs.
  • Ability to work with executive leadership and stakeholders like Product Management on platform and product strategy.

What the JD emphasized

  • technical work
  • platform evolution program
  • sustainable replacement of our legacy platforms
  • critical operational infrastructure
  • 1000 internal clients
  • 3M QPS
  • new genAI launches
  • technical foundation
  • product components
  • infrastructure
  • central solutions
  • technical decisions