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Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Compute, Performance

Google· Google Cloud Compute (GCE) – Performance
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Seattle, WA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical leadership and architectural direction of Google Cloud Compute’s (GCE) Performance initiatives, focusing on VM offerings, hardware efficiency, and scalability. Role includes roadmap definition, cross-functional leadership, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to define the roadmap for GCE’s next-generation VM offerings, translating high-level business goals into concrete technical execution plans.
  • Design, architect, and develop scalable technical solutions that optimize VM performance, push the boundaries of hardware efficiency, and maximize infrastructure utilization.
  • Lead complex, multi-functional initiatives across hardware, kernel, virtualization, and product teams to drive critical GCE performance initiatives from conception to production.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to GCE’s most critical, high-profile customers. Analyze, benchmark, and optimize their massive-scale workloads to ensure performance exceeds expectations and unlocks business value.
  • Shape the technical culture of the broader organization by mentoring junior and senior engineers, conducting design reviews, and establishing engineering best practices for performance analysis.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience programming in C++.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • Experience with CPU/memory architectures (e.g., x86, ARM) and modern server hardware performance characteristics.
  • Experience as an architect or technical lead for multi-year infrastructure initiatives from conception to global deployment.
  • Experience in one or more of the following domains: OS kernels, hypervisors/virtualization stacks (e.g., KVM, Xen), high-performance networking drivers, storage stacks.

Skills

Required:C++ programmingLarge-scale infrastructure development

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing 6.15 hours per pay period for first five years
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (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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