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Senior Staff Software Engineer, User Protection

Google · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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.

As Senior Staff Engineer in User Protection you will be responsible for technical work and contribute to the growth of our presence in Brazil, supporting a long term program and working in collaboration with our leads and teams in the United States, Europe and APAC.

You will pair with our ATL, to lead our platform evolution program, finding the path towards a sustainable replacement of our legacy platforms, critical operational infrastructure for clients like Gemini, Gmail, Maps and Search, with 1000 internal clients and 3M QPS. We help products, including new genAI launches, be safer for our users and protected from abuse.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 6 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
  • Experience designing and implementing any of the following: large-scale distributed systems, APIs used by other developers, ML (Machine Learning) systems.
  • Experience collaborating with and guiding a large team of engineers and TLs.
  • Ability to work with executive leadership and stakeholders like Product Management on platform and product strategy.

Software pay context

Based on 7,638 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $158K/year, with most offers between $123K and $200K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$236K).

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