Software Engineer, Capsium Policies, AI, and Compliance

Staff Software Engineer, Capsium Policies, AI, and Compliance

Location:

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building large‑scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 10 years of experience in software development with 2 years as a feature/capability Technical Lead.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross‑functional or cross‑business projects.

Staff Software Engineer to set the technical goal and strategy within the IAM domain, encompassing security controls and foundational platforms. You will guide the technical direction for Organization Policies, Regional Security Isolation, Policy AI, and the GCP compliance platform, enhancing reliability and development velocity. You will shape technical and design decisions across teams while contributing to organizational goals, roadmaps, strategies, and operational excellence.

You will lead architectural evolutions to accommodate emerging use cases and agents while meeting rigorous scaling and performance requirements. In this role you will demonstrate leadership and technical knowledge, successfully balance product quality, customer needs, and business goals to develop secure, reliable, and scalable GCP systems.

We deliver enterprise‑grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

• Lead large‑scale architectural and reliability initiatives in the Google Cloud Platform data plane, from proposals and designs to working scalable and reliable code and activities beyond coding: metrics, documentation, operations. Evolve current architecture to support increasing new features.
• Develop domain expertise in building and operating hyper‑reliable GCP ring‑0 infrastructure.
• Show a strong bias for action, balancing on‑call and operational activities with feature development; hold strong technical judgement, driving cross‑team and cross‑organization execution and increasing organizational execution velocity.
• Provide technical oversight to ensure excellence in architecture, implementation, and long‑term maintainability of core platforms. Reduce technical, design, and implementation ambiguity, keeping technical debt under control.
• Foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration, and invest in developing and growing team members.

US: $207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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