Engineering Leader, GCP & Vertex AI Platform

Fractal; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fractal is seeking a highly experienced Engineering Lead with deep expertise across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google's internal First-Party (1P) Engineering Ecosystem. You will be the technical authority guiding architecture, engineering execution, delivery governance, reliability, and innovation across large-scale enterprise programs.

You will mentor engineering teams, translate business requirements into executable plans, and own end-to-end delivery for strategic client initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering and distributed systems experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise building large-scale platforms using GCP.
• Prior Google experience or substantial exposure to Google's 1P ecosystem.
• Experience leading teams as a Technical Lead (TL) or Engineering Lead.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, data platforms, AI/ML systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven ability to bridge technical strategy with hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
• Lead architecture and design for data, analytics, AI/ML, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable and resilient systems leveraging BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, and microservices architectures.
• Drive engineering standards, code quality, platform governance, and architectural consistency.
• Make critical technology decisions considering scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and executable engineering plans.
• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic client programs.
• Lead distributed teams across multiple geographies.
• Drive governance, risk mitigation, dependency management, and stakeholder communication.

Skills

GCP architecture

1P Google ecosystem

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Delivery governance

Mentoring engineers

Tools

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Dataflow

Dataproc

Cloud Composer

GKE

Cloud Run

Blaze

BUILD files

google3

Monorepo

CitC

Borg

Job description

Fractal is seeking a highly experienced Engineering Lead with deep expertise across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google's internal First-Party (1P) Engineering Ecosystem. You will be the technical authority guiding architecture, engineering execution, delivery governance, reliability, and innovation across large-scale enterprise programs.

You will mentor engineering teams, translate business requirements into executable plans, and own end-to-end delivery for strategic client initiatives.