Lead Software Engineer, Google Cloud IRC281647

Description

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.

Note: GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed in Palo Alto, CA is $150,000 – $180,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good faith estimate and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.

 

 

Requirements

• • 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.

Job responsibilities

• What you’ll do:
  1. Own architecture and delivery of backend services on GCP that broker and orchestrate API integrations for vehicle features.
  2. Design and implement reliable, scalable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC, webhooks, Pub/Sub), including rate limiting, retries, backoff, and circuit breakers.
  3. Define and implement authentication and authorization for partner integrations (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, JWT), secrets management, and key rotation.
  4. 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.
  5. Lead CI/CD and infrastructure as code; standardize build, deploy, and release processes.
  6. Collaborate with security, legal, privacy, enterprise architecture, data, and vehicle/embedded teams to ensure compliance and robust end-to-end design.
  7. Mentor engineers, perform design and code reviews, and drive technical roadmap, documentation, and runbooks.
  8. Manage cost, performance, and capacity, plan for load spikes and global scale.
  9. Partner with product and integration teams to onboard third parties and define partner-facing contracts, SDKs, and sandbox/testing flows.

What we offer

Culture of caring. At GlobalLogic, we prioritize a culture of caring. Across every region and department, at every level, we consistently put people first. From day one, you’ll experience an inclusive culture of acceptance and belonging, where you’ll have the chance to build meaningful connections with collaborative teammates, supportive managers, and compassionate leaders. 

Learning and development. We are committed to your continuous learning and development. You’ll learn and grow daily in an environment with many opportunities to try new things, sharpen your skills, and advance your career at GlobalLogic. With our Career Navigator tool as just one example, GlobalLogic offers a rich array of programs, training curricula, and hands-on opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Interesting & meaningful work. GlobalLogic is known for engineering impact for and with clients around the world. As part of our team, you’ll have the chance to work on projects that matter. Each is a unique opportunity to engage your curiosity and creative problem-solving skills as you help clients reimagine what’s possible and bring new solutions to market. In the process, you’ll have the privilege of working on some of the most cutting-edge and impactful solutions shaping the world today.

Balance and flexibility. We believe in the importance of balance and flexibility. With many functional career areas, roles, and work arrangements, you can explore ways of achieving the perfect balance between your work and life. Your life extends beyond the office, and we always do our best to help you integrate and balance the best of work and life, having fun along the way!

High-trust organization. We are a high-trust organization where integrity is key. By joining GlobalLogic, you’re placing your trust in a safe, reliable, and ethical global company. Integrity and trust are a cornerstone of our value proposition to our employees and clients. You will find truthfulness, candor, and integrity in everything we do.

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.