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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise.
Cloud
Staff Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Job Description

Google Cloud is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their team in driving digital transformation through cutting-edge infrastructure and platform solutions. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring extensive experience in software development, system architecture, and team leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on critical projects that impact billions of users, spanning areas from distributed computing to AI and large-scale system design.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead high-impact projects while mentoring and influencing a distributed engineering team. The role demands expertise in managing complex technical initiatives, setting architectural direction, and delivering scalable software solutions. You'll work within Google Cloud, which serves customers in over 200 countries, providing enterprise-grade solutions leveraging Google's advanced technology.

The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of software development experience, with deep knowledge of data structures/algorithms and 5+ years of technical leadership experience. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing large-scale software solutions while ensuring alignment across teams on goals and deliverables. This position offers the chance to work at the forefront of cloud technology, contributing to Google's mission of organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.

Working at Google Cloud means joining a team that's pushing the boundaries of cloud computing, with opportunities to influence the direction of enterprise technology and solve complex technical challenges at scale. The role combines strategic thinking with technical execution, requiring both leadership skills and hands-on development expertise.

Last updated 19 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions

Requirements For Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (preferred)
  • 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms (preferred)
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction (preferred)
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects (preferred)

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