Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Product Architecture, Core
Google · Posted Oct 19
Search engine, cloud computing, software, hardware, and artificial intelligence services
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About the role
The Enterprise Product Strategy and Architecture (EPA) team defines architectural standards, scalable systems evolution, and reusable design patterns across Corporate Engineering to improve engineering velocity and enterprise-wide efficiency. Corporate Engineering is Google’s IT organization, building business solutions, tools, platforms, and experiences for Googlers. This Staff Software Engineer role evaluates complex architectures, advises domain engineering teams, and supports the Enterprise Architecture Board to ensure alignment with architectural standards and SRE best practices.
What you will do
- Drive in-depth technical evaluations of complex project designs, system architectures, and integrations across Corporate Engineering to guarantee alignment with defined architectural standards, design patterns, and strategic blueprints.
- Act as a key contributor to EAB decision-making, support the Enterprise Architecture Board review process by evaluating key annual planning initiatives and off-cycle requests throughout the year.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering teams and domain leads, translating blueprints into practical system designs while proactively identifying architectural gaps and integration risks.
- Boost developer velocity by advocating for the EA Toolkit, approved APIs, reusable design patterns, and standard technologies, making architecture an accelerator rather than a blocker.
- Evaluate proposals for scalability, performance, security, high availability, and SRE best practices.
Skills used in this role
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 4 years of technical management or leadership experience directing software developers, systems administrators, or systems architects.
- Experience in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), designing for high performance/high availability, and building solutions within modern cloud-based environments.
- Experience in developing, deploying, and troubleshooting full-stack applications handling planet-scale data.
- Excellent stakeholder management and storytelling skills, with the ability to align distributed engineering leads toward shared architectural standards.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it is widely recognized for services like Google Search, YouTube, Android, and the Gemini AI ecosystem.
- Industry
- Internet
- Company size
- 180000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998-09-04
- Location
- Mountain View, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25M raised
- 1999-06-07Series A$25M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer
Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud
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