Minimum qualifications:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C .
- 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.
Preferred qualifications:- Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 10 years of experience in software development with 2 years as a feature/capability Technical Lead.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
About the jobWe are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical goal and strategy within the IAM domain, encompassing security controls and foundational platforms.
As Staff Software Engineer for the policy, platform, and AI teams, you will guide the technical direction for Organization Policies, Regional Security Isolation, Policy AI, and the GCP compliance platform, enhancing reliability and development velocity. You will shape technical and design decisions across teams while contributing to organizational goals, roadmaps, strategies, and operational excellence. You will lead architectural evolutions to accommodate emerging use cases and agents while meeting rigorous scaling and performance requirements.
In this role, you will demonstrate leadership and technical knowledge, successfully balance product quality, customer needs, and business goals to develop secure, reliable, and scalable GCP systems.
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
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Responsibilities - Lead large-scale architectural and reliability initiatives in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data plane, ranging from proposals and designs to working scalable and reliable code to activities beyond coding: metrics, documentation, operations. Evolve current architecture to support increasing new features.
- Develop your domain expertise in building and operating hyper-reliable GCP ring-0 infrastructure
- Have a strong bias for action, including effectively balancing on-call and operational activities with feature development; hold strong and technical judgement, driving cross-team/cross-organization execution and increasing organizations execution velocity.
- Provide technical oversight to ensure excellence in architecture, implementation, and long-term maintainability of our core platforms. Reduce technical/design/implementation ambiguity, keeping technical debt under control.
- Foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and investing in developing and growing team members.
