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# Staff Software Engineer, Internet Egress Traffic Engineering

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Google Cloud
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/staff-software-engineer-internet-egress-traffic-engineering-sunnyvale-tx-usa-58815561

## About the Role

Experteer Overview In this role you lead high-impact projects and coach a distributed engineering team to deliver scalable software. You'll drive alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing priorities and deliverables. You work across the full software lifecycle to build, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale systems. This position sits at the core of Google's software engineering effort, shaping architecture and technical direction in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You'll contribute to Google Cloud's mission to help organizations transform digitally and scale with confidence. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers * Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software systems Tasks * Bachelor's degree or aa
systems. practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in C++ * 5 years building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems and networks * 3 years software design and architecture * 3 years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you lead high-impact projects and coach a distributed engineering team to deliver scalable software. You'll drive alignment across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines while managing priorities and deliverables. You work across the full software lifecycle to build, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale systems. This position sits at the core of Google's software engineering effort, shaping architecture and technical direction in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You'll contribute to Google Cloud's mission to help organizations transform digitally and scale with confidence. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects * Coach and influence a distributed team of engineers * Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines * Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables * Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software systems Tasks * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience * 8 years of experience programming in C++ * 5 years building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems and networks * 3 years software design and architecture * 3 years in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction Key requirements * bonus target * equity * benefits


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