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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Google
Seattle, USA
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
USD 262000-364000 / year
Discovered 2 weeks ago
linuxrust

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Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Execute large-scale transformation of critical virtualization and host systems code (including Virtual Machine Monitor and node infrastructure components) into idiomatic, memory-safe Rust.
  • Pioneer agentic coding techniques, AI-assisted migration workflows, and modern C++/Rust interoperability tooling to dramatically accelerate code conversion velocity while improving modularity and maintainability.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in systems software engineering, software architecture, and low-level programming in C++ and Rust.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
  • Experience architecting and shipping large-scale systems software (e.g., virtualization, hypervisors/VMMs, OS kernels, or cloud infrastructure).
  • Experience leading cross-organizational technical strategy and mentoring senior engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience leading large-scale C++-to-Rust migrations, C++/Rust interoperability (FFI), and establishing idiomatic Rust standards across an organization.
  • Experience applying AI/agentic coding workflows, LLM-assisted code translation, or automated refactoring tools to production systems.
  • Experience with Linux/KVM, Virtual Machine Monitors, hardware virtualization, and security sandboxing.
  • Expertise in functional verification for critical infrastructure, including differential fuzzing, property-based testing, or equivalence checking.

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