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Staff Software Engineer, Reef Intent Engine

Google· Hybrid Cloud Environment / Reef Initiative (Google Cloud)
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA; Kirkland, WA; New York, NY)$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focusing on Reef Intent Engine within Google's Hybrid Cloud and Core teams, designing and operating large-scale AI-enabled cloud development platforms, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and cost governance across multi-organization environments.

Responsibilities

  • Translate high-level developer and agent intent into deterministic, verifiable environments.
  • Architect fleet-wide drift detection, formal policy verification, and autonomous IAM/security remediation agents across Alphabet's multi-organization footprint.
  • Design unified policy and budget decorators so greenfield environments are safe-by-default and cost-governed at creation without manual reviews.
  • Build high-scale TrueCost billing attribution, ephemeral environment TTL enforcement, and automated brownfield waste reclamation.
  • Build evaluation harnesses to benchmark agentic infrastructure actuation. Mentor engineers and align technical roadmaps.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
  • Experience designing software architecture for applications, including AI/ML systems.
  • Experience in cloud computing, with a focus on AI/ML, data analytics, or data engineering.
  • Experience maintaining technical infrastructure for computing environments supporting AI/ML workloads.
  • Experience with cloud-native architecture and development methodologies (e.g., modernizing legacy applications, application performance profiling and tuning, container technology).

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designAI/ML system designCloud-native architecture
Nice to have:Autonomous remediation and IAM/security

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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