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Principal Engineer, Memory Safety and Agentic Modernization

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7 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$307k - $427k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural strategy and technical execution for migrating the virtualization stack from C/C++ to Rust.
  • Partner with AI engineering teams to design and deploy agentic coding tools for code translation, automated refactoring, code generation, and behavioral test synthesis.
  • Drive the systems security roadmap for memory-safe transformation of critical data plane and control plane services.
  • Integrate formal methods, theorem-proving platforms, and compile-time guarantees to prove program correctness and verify unsafe Rust code.
  • Serve as the organizational technical leader and single point of contact for Rust and agentic coding while mentoring and upskilling engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 15 years of professional software development experience, or 13 years with an advanced degree.
  • Experience architecting and developing low-level systems software such as operating systems, kernels, hypervisors, runtime environments, or compilers.
  • Experience with Rust, C, and C++.
  • Preferred experience includes 20 years of software experience driving large-scale memory-safe language migrations.
  • Preferred experience with formal verification systems and proof assistants such as Lean, TLA+, or Verus.
  • Preferred experience with AI-assisted development, automated refactoring, and leading technical teams.
  • Preferred deep specialization in hypervisor internals, including KVM, QEMU, VMMs, and hardware virtualization and security.

Benefits

  • Google benefits are referenced in the posting.
  • US base pay is listed as $307000-$427000, with a 30% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

CC++Google CloudRust

Categories

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