Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Business Platforms
Google · Kirkland, WA
$207,000–$301,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Kirkland, WA
Jul 22, 2026
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A staff-level engineering role focused on the internal platforms and applications that support Google Cloud's marketing, sales, partner, support, and finance operations. The work involves technical leadership — architecting solutions, conducting code reviews, debugging system issues, and participating in design decisions. It suits an experienced full-stack engineer with a background in web application development and, ideally, some Salesforce customization experience.
Staff level · 8+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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The role is listed at two locations — Kirkland, WA and Sunnyvale, CA (San Jose CBSA). Kirkland is reported as the primary location per Washington state benefits disclosure; the Sunnyvale alternative is in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA CBSA (41940).
The minimum qualifications gate on years of experience in software development (8 years), testing/launching software products (5 years), and software design/architecture (3 years). These are role-level experience gates rather than named-technology skills, so they are captured in the overall years minimum (8) rather than as individual skill entries.
The preferred qualifications call for 10 years of web application experience across Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, and JSON — all listed under 'Preferred qualifications' and therefore marked as preferred.
Salesforce/Apex/Lightning Web Components experience (1 year) is explicitly listed under 'Preferred qualifications' and is marked preferred accordingly.
JSF and Spring MVC are listed as interchangeable examples of web frameworks under 'Preferred qualifications'; JSF is the primary entry with Spring MVC as an alternative.
REST and SOAP API development appear together under 'Preferred qualifications' as interchangeable API paradigms.
The compensation range of $207,000–$301,000/year is stated for the US, plus a 20% bonus target and equity — the bonus and equity are not captured in the comp fields as they are variable/discretionary.
The title 'Staff Software Engineer' directly maps to the Staff seniority band; the scope (technical lead, cross-functional platform ownership for Google Cloud business systems) is consistent with Staff-level work.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, software design and architecture.
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