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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Serverless

Google

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/5/2026

Compensation

$262,000 - $365,000 per year

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Job description

The Senior Staff Software Engineer, Serverless role at Google focuses on providing technical leadership for high-impact projects related to Cloud Run, Google's premium serverless platform. The position emphasizes architectural strategy and the rollout of core back-end services to support evolving AI workloads. Engineers in this role will collaborate with product and engineering leadership to define long-term goals for stack modernization. The team is dedicated to accelerating the onboarding of new developers and enhancing platform sustainability.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 5 years of experience with serverless computing concepts and technologies on public cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Oversee architectural strategy and the rollout of core back-end services for Cloud Run.
  • Collaborate with executive product and engineering leadership to define and realize a long-term goal for stack modernization.
  • Drive operational excellence by identifying and executing systematic enhancements to platform health.

Benefits

  • Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.

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