Web3 Principal Architect - Enterprise Cloud & Blockchain

Google; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,100,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's Principal Architect for Web3 will serve as the executive technical authority guiding APAC engagements across the Web3, digital assets, and decentralized technology ecosystem. You will engage with protocol foundations, institutional exchanges, digital asset custodians, financial institutions tokenizing real-world assets, and high-growth decentralized applications.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of executive business strategy and deep distributed systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in system architecture, distributed systems design, or cloud infrastructure in an enterprise customer-facing or technical leadership role.
• 4 years of experience architecting, deploying, or operating production-grade Web3 systems, blockchain protocols, or smart contract ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the trusted technical advisor to C-level executives, protocol founders, and chief architects across strategic Web3 accounts and financial institutions in APAC.
• Design, validate, and document scalable enterprise architectures that bridge decentralized protocols with cloud infrastructure, including high-throughput RPC node clusters, validator operations, blockchain indexing pipelines, and confidential key management.
• Author repeatable technical assets, reference implementations, and architectural whitepapers that scale Web3 capabilities across regional Customer Engineering and Partner teams.
• Connect field requirements directly with Google Cloud product management and engineering, driving feature prioritization and roadmap development for products.
• Guide customers on enterprise risk, security, and compliance architectures for virtual assets, aligning with regional regulatory frameworks (HKMA, SFC).

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Web3 / blockchain

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math or related field

Job description

Google Cloud's Principal Architect for Web3 will serve as the executive technical authority guiding APAC engagements across the Web3, digital assets, and decentralized technology ecosystem. You will engage with protocol foundations, institutional exchanges, digital asset custodians, financial institutions tokenizing real-world assets, and high-growth decentralized applications.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of executive business strategy and deep distributed systems