The Staff Software Engineer for Authorization Search Infrastructure at Google will lead a team responsible for critical services that protect user data and uphold privacy standards. This role involves managing engineers across multiple teams and locations while overseeing large-scale projects. The engineer will focus on designing systems that ensure strong consistency between application data and access control policies. The position requires both technical expertise and leadership skills to drive project goals and contribute to product strategy.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• Experience in a people management or technical leadership role.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in low-level systems programming languages such as C++ or C.
• Experience with one or more storage stacks such as Spanner or Bigtable.

• Manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers, mentoring and growing technical leads.
• Drive team execution on the Plumber roadmap, ensuring delivery of high-visibility projects.
• Lead the multi-year Sharing Placements in Plumber initiative to support Drive's integration into Spanner.
• Enable future-facing infrastructure capabilities for AI and Cloud.
• Resolve identified system inefficiencies and eliminate duplicate work across Plumber and Zanzibar.

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