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Staff Software Engineer, Virtual Machines

GoogleMillbrae, CAL6 LeadOctober 26th, 2026
Overview: As a technical leader on high-impact projects, you guide a distributed engineering team to deliver scalable software for Google's cloud offerings. You will align multiple teams on goals, timelines, and outcomes while managing priorities and delivery. You design and evolve large-scale systems, ensuring reliable development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. This role combines hands-on architecture with people leadership to drive impactful, enterprise-grade cloud solutions at scale. Compensation / Benefitsbonus targetequitybenefitsflexible work arrangements
Responsibilities:
  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
  • Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers
  • Facilitate alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions
Key requirements:
  • 8 years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems 2 years of experience with Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experienceleadershipcoachingcross-functional collaboration
  • Kubernetesdistributed systemsdata structures and algorithms