Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Production PKIS

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Kirkland, WA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$262k - $364k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the overarching multi-year architectural blueprint across Production PKI domains and lead cross-domain design reviews.
  • Establish unified cryptographic and API design standards and resolve complex architectural trade-offs across sub-teams.
  • Author and drive the 3–5 year technical strategy for production identity, including post-quantum readiness, confidential computing, and agentic workflows.
  • Translate enterprise-wide security mandates into sequenced engineering roadmaps.
  • Align stakeholders on priorities, dependencies, and architectural best practices while guiding cross-cutting working groups.
  • Partner with Security Leadership, Cloud Foundations, Infrasec SRE, CorpEng, and Hardware Security teams on security boundaries and platform roadmaps.
  • 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.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture and testing or 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 or token architectures.
  • Ability to navigate cross-functional organizational dynamics, build consensus among executive stakeholders, and lead geographically distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

  • US base salary is $262000–$364000, plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Google Cloud and Google benefits are provided; further benefit details are available through Google.
  • The role involves collaboration across geographically distributed engineering teams and Google Cloud production environments.

Tech Stack

C++Google Cloud

Categories

Google

About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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