Lead Principal Engineer, AI Service Networking

Google; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer for Service Networking AI to lead the architectural evolution of Google's service networking stack for AI workloads. You will collaborate with Cloud Networking, product teams, and customers to define requirements and deliver high-performance, cost-effective networking solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive multi-year strategies, and ensure timely delivery of architecture milestones, while partnering across Google’s infrastructure to differentiate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of software engineering experience, building and working with large-scale distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience delivering networking solutions at hyperscale.
• 2 years of experience serving ML, AI, or agentic workloads.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your networking and cloud computing expertise to best serve AI and agentic workloads.
• Define, drive, and land a multi-year technical outlook and architectural strategy that brings individual networking components together into an overall ecosystem differentiated for AI and agentic serving.
• Partner with product management and directly with customers to understand customer AI and agentic requirements.
• Lead software engineers within the service networking organization, ensuring their contributions toward your outlook land on time and with high quality.
• Act as a premier technical mentor and sponsor, growing the next generation of technical leaders across Google Cloud.

Skills

Distributed systems

Hyperscale networking

Leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

DNS

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer for Service Networking AI to lead the architectural evolution of Google's service networking stack for AI workloads. You will collaborate with Cloud Networking, product teams, and customers to define requirements and deliver high-performance, cost-effective networking solutions.

You will mentor engineers, drive multi-year strategies, and ensure timely delivery of architecture milestones, while partnering across Google’s infrastructure to differentiate