Job Title: Lead Software Engineer/Google Cloud Engineer/GCP Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA (Onsite- 5 days onsite in a week)

Duration: 12+ months

You will own the end-to-end design, development, and operation of cloud services on GCP, ensure seamless integration with Client s existing cloud infrastructure, and lead SW development toward high reliability, performance, and security.

What you ll do:

• Own architecture and delivery of backend services on GCP that broker and orchestrate API integrations for vehicle features.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC, webhooks, Pub/Sub), including rate limiting, retries, backoff, and circuit breakers.
• Define and implement authentication and authorization for partner integrations (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, JWT), secrets management, and key rotation.
• Integrate services with Client s enterprise cloud environment, identity, networking, and observability tooling; establish secure connectivity (VPC peering/VPN/Private Service Connect) across clouds as needed. Establish SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and on-call readiness; drive SRE best practices.
• Lead CI/CD and infrastructure as code; standardize build, deploy, and release processes.
• Collaborate with security, legal, privacy, enterprise architecture, data, and vehicle/embedded teams to ensure compliance and robust end-to-end design.
• Mentor engineers, perform design and code reviews, and drive technical roadmap, documentation, and runbooks.
• Manage cost, performance, and capacity, plan for load spikes and global scale.
• Partner with product and integration teams to onboard third parties and define partner-facing contracts, SDKs, and sandbox/testing flows.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience designing and operating services on Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in one or more languages: Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with API management and partner ecosystems (Apigee/API Gateway, developer portals, partner onboarding).
• Solid understanding of REST/gRPC, asynchronous messaging, and API-first design.
• Solid understanding of OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, TLS/mTLS.
• Proven experience building scalable, highly available systems and operating them in production.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams.