Senior Staff Software Engineer, GCBP Transact

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will define the multi-year technical strategy and architectural roadmap for Google Cloud Business Platforms (GCBP) pre-production environments and automated testing ecosystems. You will advocate the transformation of our environment landscape, moving from manual, fragmented staging environments to fully automated, hermetic, and time-accelerated pre-production layers.

Working closely with leaders across GCBP, Ordering, Billing, and SAP/Finance, you will establish quality gates that safeguard high-stakes migrations and production releases. You are a versatile technical leader who models engineering excellence, thrives on solving highly ambiguous systems problems, excels in SDLC management, and is passionate about mentoring a global engineering organization.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy and Leadership: Define the multi-year architectural goal and strategy for GCBP’s pre-production environments, testing platform and SDLC management. Execute on the defined strategy with AI Agentic innovation.
• Drive the design, execution, and release governance of a brand new testing environment for entire GCP lead to cash systems. Establishing a reliable, fully connected end-to-end testing environment operating on a unified data plane with first-party and third-party systems.
• Quality Gates and Release Governance: Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to define and enforce enterprise grate automated gatekeeping strategies (including presubmit integrations and release certification) to reduce production support tickets and outages.
• Team Mentorship and Influence: Mentor, grow, and provide technical direction to a high-performing global engineering team, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and influencing best practices and AI transformation across the organization.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.