Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud

Google•Durham, NC

3d•$307,000 - $427,000

About The Position

With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), Google is creating a private and hybrid cloud offering that brings Google Cloud’s AI-led services and infrastructure to customers on an on-premise platform designed to be simple, secure, and scalable. GDC Storage encompasses high-performance block storage, shared file storage, large-scale object storage, and backup and restore functions. It supports large-scale deployments in highly secure and sovereign environments, where storage is critical to data protection. The Principal Engineer is responsible for execution for GDC Storage and Data Protection. The role directly influences a team of software engineers and works closely with product management and engineering managers to define and execute the GDC storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. The engineer is expected to inspire teams and establish trust with stakeholders and partners. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The listed U.S. compensation is $307,000–$427,000, plus a 30% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience in cloud computing, such as enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, and data.
10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems.
Experience with private and public cloud design considerations involving developer and operator productivity, virtualization, containers, high-performance computing, data, security, and configuration/policy automation.
Experience providing technical guidance and working with teams to deliver services for internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Experience designing and implementing large-scale filesystems or distributed storage systems.
Experience leading product development of second-generation cloud products at scale.
Experience with IaaS solutions such as Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing, cloud identity and security systems, cloud monitoring and logging, or local and cloud storage.
Technical expertise in systems and software, with the leadership skills needed to influence technical leaders across the company.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with peer tech leads in Google Distributed Cloud Edge Delivery (GDCE) to develop a strategic roadmap to remediate all reliability findings.
Collaborate with a global team of engineers and product managers to execute, making appropriate tradeoffs among architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
Drive systems, tools, and infrastructure strategic roadmap and development to improve the ability to scale GDC Storage.
Lead the overall Storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.