Staff Software Engineering, Google Distributed Cloud Hosted

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large - scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• Experience in architecting and designing a distributed system in a public cloud environment (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience working with Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, and cloud security.
• Experience in developing and maintaining backend systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in software development building large-scale platforms.
• Experience contributing to open source projects or working with open source community.
• Understanding of cloud architectures, public and private cloud based systems.
• Ability to navigate open-ended technical challenges and make proper trade-offs.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped (GDCag) is a new, converged hardware and software solution that brings selected Google Cloud Platform services on-premises. It is designed for customers who need to run cloud workloads in air-gapped (no connectivity to Google Cloud Platform) and highly secure environments due to regulations or policies, while still gaining operational efficiency and a consistent Google Cloud Platform experience.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable platform that supports key business deliverables for Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped. Work closely with a variety of Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped teams, Google Cloud Platform teams, and external vendors to ensure the timely delivery of the Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped software stack.
• Influence and shape the security architecture and roadmap of Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped in live threat detection, vulnerabilities detection, and remediation.
• Collaborate with Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped Product Management, Principals, and Architecture to solve broad, impactful problems to raise the bar for quality, robustness, operability, and velocity.
• Define Agentic Artificial Intelligence opportunities in Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped in the space of fault remediation and architect, design, and land solutions.
• Drive alignment of Google Distributed Cloud - Airgapped security components with Google Cloud Platform security architecture.