Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA
Staff Software Engineer jobs in Seattle, Washington draw heavy demand from cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and consumer technology sectors, with roles concentrated in South Lake Union, Capitol Hill, and Bellevue across the Eastside corridor. Employers hiring right now include Rippling, Anthropic, and Google. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails
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Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails
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Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails
Google·Seattle, Washington
Job functions:
$207k - $300k/yr
Hybrid
Master's degree
10,000+ employees
Job Description
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.
As a part of the Hybrid Cloud Environment (HCE) team, your mission is to enable Alphabet’s safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by shifting non-functional requirements (Security, Privacy, Regulatory, and FinOps) into the platform layer.
In this role, you will lead a newly consolidated engineering team that merges two critical workstreams: The former Cloud AI Solutions team and The former Corp Run team.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 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
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- Experience in applications security, cryptography, network security, systems security or malware analysis.
- Experience with Engineering Tools and Infrastructure.
- Experience with Cloud.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience designing sandboxes, execution runtimes, or governance APIs for autonomous AI agents and high-velocity developer platforms.
- Proven experience designing modular Terraform libraries, policy compilers, and automated deployment pipelines across multi-organization cloud environments.
- Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) governance primitives, including Organization Policies, Identity and Access Management (IAM) Allow/Deny policies, Hierarchical Firewalls, VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC), and Resource Manager/Cloud Tags.
About the job
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 a part of the Hybrid Cloud Environment (HCE) team, your mission is to enable Alphabet’s safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by shifting non-functional requirements (Security, Privacy, Regulatory, and FinOps) into the platform layer.
In this role, you will lead a newly consolidated engineering team that merges two critical workstreams: The former Cloud AI Solutions team and The former Corp Run team.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, aligning strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
- Establish clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, meeting regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
- Lead the technical design, evolution, and execution of dynamic security controls, conditional policy actuation via Cloud Tags, and staged, zero-impact roll out pipelines across Alphabet's cloud footprint.
- Serve as a technical anchor for the Hybrid Guardrails engineering team, reviewing complex designs, establishing rigorous code and security standards, and mentoring executive engineers and Technical Leads (TLs).
- Design intelligent components that dynamically evaluate workload intent, data sensitivity, and maturity stage to enforce appropriate security guardrails without introducing manual exception bottlenecks.
Google
Staff Software Engineer, Modern Governance and Hybrid Guardrails
Seattle, Washington
Added 2d ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$207k - $300k/yr
Hybrid
Master's degree
Job Description
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.
As a part of the Hybrid Cloud Environment (HCE) team, your mission is to enable Alphabet’s safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by shifting non-functional requirements (Security, Privacy, Regulatory, and FinOps) into the platform layer.
In this role, you will lead a newly consolidated engineering team that merges two critical workstreams: The former Cloud AI Solutions team and The former Corp Run team.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 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
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- Experience in applications security, cryptography, network security, systems security or malware analysis.
- Experience with Engineering Tools and Infrastructure.
- Experience with Cloud.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience designing sandboxes, execution runtimes, or governance APIs for autonomous AI agents and high-velocity developer platforms.
- Proven experience designing modular Terraform libraries, policy compilers, and automated deployment pipelines across multi-organization cloud environments.
- Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) governance primitives, including Organization Policies, Identity and Access Management (IAM) Allow/Deny policies, Hierarchical Firewalls, VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC), and Resource Manager/Cloud Tags.
About the job
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 a part of the Hybrid Cloud Environment (HCE) team, your mission is to enable Alphabet’s safe-by-default use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by shifting non-functional requirements (Security, Privacy, Regulatory, and FinOps) into the platform layer.
In this role, you will lead a newly consolidated engineering team that merges two critical workstreams: The former Cloud AI Solutions team and The former Corp Run team.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals, aligning strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
- Establish clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals, meeting regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
- Lead the technical design, evolution, and execution of dynamic security controls, conditional policy actuation via Cloud Tags, and staged, zero-impact roll out pipelines across Alphabet's cloud footprint.
- Serve as a technical anchor for the Hybrid Guardrails engineering team, reviewing complex designs, establishing rigorous code and security standards, and mentoring executive engineers and Technical Leads (TLs).
- Design intelligent components that dynamically evaluate workload intent, data sensitivity, and maturity stage to enforce appropriate security guardrails without introducing manual exception bottlenecks.
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Who's Hiring
- Rippling15
- Anthropic11
- Google9
- UKG6
- Pinterest6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software35
- Science & Research11
- Banking & Financial Services7
- Insurance4
- Retail2
Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Seattle: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a staff software engineer job in Seattle?
Seattle's strongest hiring comes from cloud platforms, developer tooling companies, and large consumer technology firms concentrated in South Lake Union and the Eastside. Candidates who stand out typically show ownership of distributed systems or platform-scale work at a previous employer. Targeting companies with active infrastructure or product growth stages, and networking through Seattle's dense engineering community, gives a meaningful edge over remote applicants.
Which companies hire staff software engineers in Seattle?
Seattle staff software engineer roles are posted by Rippling, Anthropic, and Google and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. The city's employer mix ranges from hyperscale cloud providers to mid-size SaaS companies and a growing cluster of fintech and healthtech startups, many headquartered in or near South Lake Union.
Are there remote staff software engineer jobs in Seattle?
Yes, staff software engineer roles are well suited to remote and hybrid arrangements given the nature of the work. About 58% of staff software engineer openings tied to Seattle are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting broad adoption across the local tech sector. Backend platform and infrastructure-focused roles tend to offer the most location flexibility among Seattle employers.
How can I get a staff software engineer job in Seattle with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Seattle is through a senior software engineer role at a mid-size company, then building toward staff-level scope within two to three years. Seattle's SaaS and cloud-adjacent companies frequently promote from within and value candidates who demonstrate project leadership on cross-functional work. Contributing to open-source projects used by Seattle-area employers and attending local engineering meetups can accelerate visibility with hiring teams.
Which industries hire the most staff software engineers in Seattle?
The sectors hiring the most staff software engineers in Seattle are Technology & Software, Science & Research, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Seattle's role as a global cloud computing hub and its concentration of enterprise software companies make these sectors disproportionately large employers of senior engineering talent compared to most other U.S. cities.
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