Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Senior Staff Software Engineer in USA

Google
Full time
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USA
09/11/2026
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Kirkland, WA

Responsibilities

Define multi-year architectural blueprints across production PKI domains and resolve complex cross-team architectural trade-offs.
Establish unified cryptographic and API design standards and lead cross-domain design reviews.
Author and drive three-to-five-year technical goals for production identity, including post-quantum readiness, confidential computing, and agentic workflows.
Translate Regional Security Isolation and Cryptographic Hygiene mandates into sequenced engineering roadmaps.
Align stakeholders, shared dependencies, and architectural practices across specialized working groups and sub-teams.
Partner with Security Leadership, Cloud Foundations, Infrasec SRE, CorpEng, and Hardware Security teams.
Lead operational excellence, multi-region fault tolerance, automated key rotations, and disaster recovery readiness across production services.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Eight years of experience programming in C++.
Five years of experience with design and architecture, and testing and launching software products.
Experience setting multi-team technical strategy or serving as a Lead Architect or Tech Lead for mission-critical, large-scale systems.
Deep expertise in Public Key Infrastructure, applied cryptography, X.509, cryptographic key lifecycles, asymmetric and symmetric algorithms, and identity/token architectures.
Ability to navigate cross-functional organizational dynamics, build consensus among senior leadership stakeholders, and lead geographically distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

The posting mentions equity, benefits, and a 25% bonus target in addition to base pay.
Google provides information about its employee benefits, but specific benefit details are not included in the posting.

Salary: $262k - $364k/yr

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