Senior Software Engineer, of Git

In 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

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Seattle, WA, USA;
Kirkland, WA, USA
.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• Experience designing and implementing software system architectures.
• Experience with architectural patterns, design principles, and technologies.
• Experience deploying and managing distributed systems on cloud platforms.
• Experience in using Git for version control and code collaboration.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure with a focus on High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) for mission-critical developer tools.
• Experience in extending enterprise-grade platforms to meet complex corporate compliance, security, and scalability requirements.
• Proven ability to partner with Security and Policy leaders to navigate compliance and infrastructure requirements for large-scale internal platforms.
• Proven track record of evolving large-scale version control architectures and contributing to industry standards or open-source communities.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. 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’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. 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.

The Git Source team is re-architecting Google's Software Development Life Cycle through the Future of Git (FoG) initiative. We are leading an accelerated transition from legacy proprietary systems to industry-standard platforms as the foundation for an internal developer platform (IDP).

Our mission is to rapidly land General Availability, delivering an AI-first SDLC architecture characterized by agentic orchestration, spec-driven development, and context-aware intelligence.

In this role, you will be responsible for the technical leadership required to bridge Google’s unique internal scale with industry-standard ecosystems while navigating complex Cloud security governance and requirements. You will provide technical orchestration across engineering teams in Cloud and Open Ecosystems, Google Cloud, Git Ecosystem, and Privacy Safety and Security (PSS) to ensure a highly available, "compliant-by-default" developer experience that accelerates feature velocity for Googlers.

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 se are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every…