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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor"s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience building, testing, and maintaining distributed backend systems or micro services in production.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, and concurrency, and experience programming in one or more general-purpose languages (e.g., Go, C++, Java, Python).
• Experience in Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and DevOps

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Technical lead experience working with 3 or more engineers across organizations.
• Experience with Go, gRPC, Spanner, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment

About the job

Google Cloud"s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We"re looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud"s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the technical outlook and architecture for GCP"s core API Platform. You"ll lead the design and development of highly scalable, available, and performant global backend systems, making critical architectural decisions to ensure robustness and low latency. Advocating reliability best practices, you will instill comprehensive testing, monitoring, and automated recovery mechanisms. You will lead performance optimization efforts, mentor engineers, and set high technical standards through design and code reviews. Collaborating across foundational cloud teams, you will advocate the safe integration and deployment of new capabilities, handling complex and ambiguous problems to shape the future of our producer platform.Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex, highly available, and fault-tolerant backend systems responsible for consistent state distribution and API management globally.
• Advocate and instill best practices for system reliability, including comprehensive testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end, chaos engineering), robust monitoring, and effective alerting.
• Lead and guide technical discussions, including design reviews, code reviews, setting a high bar for engineering quality and best practices. Influence technical direction and standards across the team and within the broader Producer Foundations organization.
• Negotiate and align on technical designs and integration points with partner teams, ensuring seamless end-to-end functionality and reliability.
• Scope and break down large, ambiguous problems into manageable pieces, driving solutions from conception to production.

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