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Posted 17 June, 2026
Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer, User Protection

Google
Belo Horizonte;São Paulo State of Minas Gerais;State of São Paulo Brazil;Brazil Full Time
Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil; São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of software development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 6 years of experience in a technical leadership position.
  • Experience designing and implementing any of the following: large-scale distributed systems, APIs used by other developers, ML (Machine Learning) systems.
  • Experience collaborating with and guiding a large team of engineers and TLs.
  • Ability to work with executive leadership and stakeholders like Product Management on platform and product strategy.

About the job

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.

As Senior Staff Engineer in User Protection you will be responsible for technical work and contribute to the growth of our presence in Brazil, supporting a long term program and working in collaboration with our leads and teams in the United States, Europe and APAC.

You will pair with our ATL, to lead our platform evolution program, finding the path towards a sustainable replacement of our legacy platforms, critical operational infrastructure for clients like Gemini, Gmail, Maps and Search, with 1000 internal clients and 3M QPS. We help products, including new genAI launches, be safer for our users and protected from abuse.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with distributed engineering teams, cross-organization and cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategy.
  • Collaborate with product management and critical customers regularly to ensure the roadmap is delivering value continuously and is aligned with the strategy.
  • Work closely with the teams and stakeholders towards delivering on the strategy, unblocking the team on technical decision making and issues.
  • Communicate the strategy and the roadmap to cross-functional stakeholders and ensure continued alignment/support.
  • Mentor and grow the team on reliability, security, privacy and engineering best practices.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.