Senior Software Engineer, Production PKIS

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Production PKIS

Locations: Kirkland, WA, USA;
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level: Advanced

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

• 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:
Kirkland, WA, USA;
Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

• Experience setting multi-team technical strategy or acting as a Lead Architect/Tech Lead for mission-critical, and large-scale systems.
• Deep technical expertise in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), applied cryptography (X.509, cryptographic key life cycles, asymmetric/symmetric algorithms), and identity/token architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate cross-functional organizational dynamics, build consensus among senior leadership stakeholders, and lead geographically distributed engineering teams.

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.

Prod Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) builds and operates the foundational cryptographic and identity infrastructure that secures Google's planetary-scale production environments and sovereign cloud deployments. Every service, machine, workload, and administrative action across Google relies on our platform for cryptographically verified identity, scoped authorization, and high-assurance trust boundaries.

• Identity: Empowers production entities to prove identity and associated security attributes, owning root-of-trust management, full-lifecycle credential issuance, and revocation infrastructure.
• Platform: Enables Google engineering teams and PKI operators to deploy and operate automated, self-service PKI stacks with minimal operational toil and sustaining cost.
• Delegation: Enables authenticated principals, distributed workloads, and autonomous AI agents to delegate scoped subsets of permissions dynamically, safely, and transparently.

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 Salary: $262,000 - $364,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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