--- title: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Google description: Google is hiring for the Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack role in Sunnyvale, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/senior-staff-software-engineer-full-stack-at-google-01a186ea-f63b-74a9-9623-12720eb71c6c date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Google as Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $262K–$364K per year. Requires 5+ years of experience. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/t88kn3.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | Sunnyvale, CA | | **Salary** | $262K/yr - $364K/yr | | **Posted** | Oct 29, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Google sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 9,179 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Google. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $179,000 – $254,000 a year (median $213,000). ## Description Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. 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 Learn more about [benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/). - Drive the end-to-end technical architecture for secure by design (SbD) for AI Applications and Policy Set Manager (PSM), orchestrating preventative and detective controls across organization policy, IAM Deny, principal access boundary (PAB), VPC service controls, and AI application perimeters. - Architect pre-deployment security assessment, policy simulation/dry-run evaluation, and automated drift detection and remediation pipelines across first-party and third-party cloud environments. - Shape the technical roadmap and detection architecture for control plane threat detection and shadow AI discovery (discovering and governing unregistered AI agents, MCP servers, and inference workloads). - Serve as an organizational technical authority across SCC’s Control Plane, Data Plane, Compliance, Threats, and Agentic Security surfaces—leading high-level design reviews, resolving cross-organization architectural trade-offs, and establishing engineering standards. - Mentor and grow L5/L6 Tech Leads and executive engineers across distributed engineering hubs (Kirkland/Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore). ### Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in software development. - 7 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent. - 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products. ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience with cloud development and building large-scale systems. - Prior Tech Lead or other engineering leadership experience. - Demonstrated ability to work across teams, build relationships, influence senior managers, and successfully manage multiple complex priorities. - Strong software engineering and system design skills. - Self-driven, passionate, and an inclination to solve complex and ambiguous problems. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in software development. - 7 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, GO, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent. - 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products. ## Skills - Influencing - Control Plane - Technical Leadership - Go - Cascading Style Sheets (Css) - Security by Design - Full Stack Development - Systems Design - Python - Professional Scrum Master Level I - Software Development - Cloud Development - Level Design - C++ - Front End (Software Engineering) - Identity And Access Management - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Vpc) - Google Cloud Platform (Gcp) - HyperText Markup Language (Html) - TypeScript - Data Plane - JavaScript - Leadership - Technical Architecture - Java - Distributed Systems ## Related - [More jobs at Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260759 jobs - [Technology, Information and Internet](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/technology-information-and-internet?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 11788 jobs - [Sunnyvale, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/sunnyvale?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 5882 jobs - [Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 3839 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 260759 jobs - [Technology, Information and Internet](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/technology-information-and-internet?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 11788 jobs - [Sunnyvale, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/sunnyvale?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 5882 jobs - [Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 3839 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)