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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud AI, Agent Governance

Google

Location

Sunnyvale, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/2/2026

Compensation

$262,000 - $364,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202698.4% approval-14% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Senior Staff Software Engineer role at Google focuses on Cloud AI and Agent Governance, requiring expertise in software development and machine learning infrastructure. The position involves leading engineering efforts to create scalable and secure environments for enterprise customers. The engineer will work closely with product teams to enhance governance user experiences for IT teams and auditors. This role is crucial for advancing Google's AI platform and ensuring compliance and security in agent deployments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing industry-scale ML infrastructure.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing, launching software products.
  • 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques or related concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and operate large-scale environments for testing complex agent behaviors.
  • Deliver reproducible evaluation infrastructure and automated test harnesses for enterprise compliance.
  • Design and scale platform infrastructure for validating agentic systems and auditing behaviors.
  • Build metrics engines and dashboards to track evaluation coverage and quality metrics.
  • Integrate evaluation runs into deployment pipelines to prevent regressions before production.

Benefits

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

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Google Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

908

FY2026

Approval rate

98.4%

FY2026

LCA certified

4,273

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-14%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-51%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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