Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Security

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +2

This role is for a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Security team at Google. The primary focus is on developing and deploying security infrastructure, primitives, and APIs to enforce regional isolation and control access policies. The role involves designing, developing, and testing security software, collaborating with partner teams, and driving improvements in the codebase. It requires strong programming skills in C++, Go, or Python, experience with large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, and software design/architecture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the team in building Google software engineering best practices to build products that are maintainable, well tested, and reliable.
  2. Design, develop, and deploy security software (tools, libraries, APIs, and controls) for to support critical user journeys of defining, manage, and enforce location-based access policies.
  3. Collaborate with partner teams in Technical Infrastructure Security and numerous other product areas at Google to define requirements and to develop regional security solutions.
  4. Drive major improvements in the code base requiring careful analysis, planning and roll out of changes.
  5. Mentor, develop and support members of the growing team.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Go
  • Python
  • software testing
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • software design
  • software architecture

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree
  • PhD
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • cross-functional collaboration

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience programming in C++, Go or Python
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience with Security