Engineering Lead Architect, Google Compute Engine, Sole Tenancy

Google Inc.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 492,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Google Warsaw, Poland is seeking an Engineering Lead Architect for Google Compute Engine, Sole Tenancy. You will own the technical direction, drive architecture, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, reliable infrastructure.

The role emphasizes leadership and ownership within a fast-paced cloud platform. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in software development, 5+ years in technical leadership, and experience with large distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years in technical leadership leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 5+ years designing, building, and testing large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

• Define, scope, and assume complete technical ownership over your team's functional space, turning ambiguous business requirements into concrete, actionable technical plans.
• Set the short- and long-term technical direction and architecture for the platform, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Maintain a high bar of individual contribution by writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, while leading design reviews and setting engineering best practices.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical hurdles, bringing teams together to resolve complex architectural bottlenecks and move projects forward.
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team, helping them grow technically through code reviews, design discussions, and collaborative pairing.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

System design

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 5 years of experience designing, building, and testing large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure services.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with and influencing cross-functional stakeholders (Product Management, SRE) and neighboring engineering groups, especially when managing priorities.
• Experience leveraging modern architectural patterns or integrating advanced system optimization/automation techniques to improve system efficiencies.
• Demonstrated experience proactively identifying scaling bottlenecks, simplifying legacy or complex codebases, and actively reducing operational chaos to improve overall team velocity.
• A proven track record of thought leadership and innovation in addressing complex, open-ended problems.
• Deep passion for mentoring both junior and executive engineers, leading design reviews, and introducing new engineering practices that elevate the team's capabilities.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

The Sole Tenancy (ST) team's mission is to establish ST as Google Cloud's premier "Host-as-a-Service" platform. By delivering first-class Google Compute Engine (GCE) integration, we enable enterprises to monetize their balance sheets (CapEx) and achieve the market's lowest total cost of ownership through Compute Pools.

Our strategy focuses on capturing large-scale data center exits, capitalizing cloud spend, and providing seamless integration with GCE ecosystem features like MIGs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Reservations. We are committed to delivering density supremacy, licensing optimization, and simplified, reliable whole-host management.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Define, scope, and assume complete technical ownership over your team's functional space, turning ambiguous business requirements into concrete, actionable technicalplans.
• Set the short- and long-term technical direction and architecture for the platform, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Maintain a high bar of individual contribution by writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, while leading design reviews and setting engineering best practices.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical hurdles, bringing teams together to resolve complex architectural bottlenecks and move projects forward.
• Mentor and guide engineers on the team, helping them grow technically through code reviews, design discussions, and collaborative pairing.

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