Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails

Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails

Google – Seattle, WA, USA;
New York, NY, USA; +2 more; +1 more

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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;
New York, NY, USA;
San Jose, CA, USA
.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• Experience in applications security, cryptography, network security, systems security or malware analysis.
• Experience with Engineering Tools and Infrastructure.
• Experience with Cloud.

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience designing sandboxes, execution runtimes, or governance APIs for autonomous AI agents and high-velocity developer platforms.
• Proven experience designing modular Terraform libraries, policy compilers, and automated deployment pipelines across multi-organization cloud environments.
• Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) governance primitives, including Organization Policies, Identity and Access Management (IAM Allow/Deny policies, Hierarchical Firewalls, VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC), and Resource Manager/Cloud Tags.

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.

As a part of the Hybrid Cloud Environment (HCE) team, your mission is to enable Alphabet’s safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by shifting non-functional requirements (Security, Privacy, Regulatory, and Fin Ops) into the platform layer.

In this role, you will lead a newly consolidated engineering team that merges two critical work streams:
The former Cloud AI Solutions team and The former Corp Run team.

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…