Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.