Google

Staff Software Engineer, Data Protection

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in distributed computing and software development.
  • Expertise in big data analytics and cloud computing technologies.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C , C#, Java, Python, or Go.
  • Experience with large-scale infrastructure or networks, particularly Google-scale systems.

Responsibilities

  • Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure while optimizing cost, latency, and reliability.
  • Collaborate with various teams to integrate infrastructure with core Google systems.
  • Develop solutions with a developer-first approach to ensure wide adoption and minimal operational overhead.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables effectively.
  • Design, deploy, and enhance software solutions that facilitate data protection across Google's ecosystem.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Generous paid time off and family leave policies.
  • Opportunities for professional development and learning.
  • Support for work-life balance through flexible schedules.
  • Access to various employee resource groups and community programs.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with distributed compute environments, software development, big data analytics, cloud computing including virtualization, hosted services, multi tenant cloud infrastructures, storage systems or content delivery networks.
  • Experience with software development in C/C , C#, Java, Python or Go.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, and experience with compute technologies, storage, and hardware architecture.
  • Experience with Google- scale infrastructure.


About the job

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

We build and maintains data protection capabilities that integrate across Google's storage, data processing, and AI stacks. Our infrastructure provides fine-grained policy enforcement, access filtering, and guardrails for data handling systems and emerging AI workloads. By building friction-free, standardized protections directly into foundational platforms, we help engineering teams across Alphabet launch and iterate on products quickly while maintaining high security and privacy standards.

Our team thrives on strong collaboration, high autonomy, and mutual respect. We bring a pragmatic mindset to balancing long-term infrastructure health with customer needs, while fostering an open culture and a healthy work-life balance

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Drive implementation of high-scale infrastructure optimizing cost, latency, and reliability.
  • Partner cross-organizationally to integrate our infra into foundational Google systems.
  • Build developer-first solutions that maximize company-wide adoption with minimal toil.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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