Staff Software Engineer, Authorization Search Infrastructure
New York, NY, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years of experience in software development; experience in people management or technical leadership is also required.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating authorization infrastructure that protects user data and keeps application data consistent with access control policies.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow a team of approximately 10 software engineers and technical leads.
- Drive the Plumber roadmap, including the multi-year Sharing Placements initiative supporting Drive’s integration into Spanner.
- Improve integration between Plumber and Zanzibar and develop infrastructure capabilities for AI and Cloud.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- Experience in a people management or technical leadership role and in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with low-level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C) and a storage stack such as Spanner or Bigtable.
Nice to have
- Experience processing massive datasets using Flume.
- Experience managing software engineering teams and developing infrastructure roadmaps, or managing or developing managers.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) base salary
Tools
C++, C, Spanner, Bigtable, Flume, Plumber, Zanzibar
AI focus
Enables future-facing infrastructure capabilities for AI and helps define the agentic identity space.
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