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Posted date: Jun 08, 2026
There have been 4 jobs posted with the title of Staff Software Engineer, Data Cloud Memorystore all time at Google.Location: Kirkland, WA
Level: Director
Description
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.
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
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.
We are the Cloud Memorystore team. Our mission is to provide high-performance, highly available cache-as-a-service for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers. Developers who need to improve application performance rely on our high-throughput, low-latency in-memory data for persistent backends like SQL, etc. To achieve this, we own three fully managed services—Valkey, Redis, and Memcached—built on Google’s scalable and secure infrastructure.
In this role, you will play a critical role in leading the development and own the long term technical roadmap, drive the architecture and design, and lead the team in implementing and delivering functionality to large customers with demanding workloads. You will also partner closely with Product Mangers to define product direction and priorities, and collaborate with a number of other GCP teams to drive alignment and integrations.
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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits
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Qualifications
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.8 years of experience programming in C++. 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience with redis, memcached, or other caching or database systems.
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. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects. Experience in building managed services, especially Caching, Proxy, Database or Storage.
Extended Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.8 years of experience programming in C++. 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience with redis, memcached, or other caching or database systems.