Principal Engineer, Cloud Surfaces

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Health benefits

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead platform acceleration across Google Cloud surfaces. You will shape technical outlooks for web, mobile, SDK/CLI integrations and mentor senior tech leads to build scalable, secure experiences.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product teams, driving multi-year roadmaps, and translating constraints into actionable designs that extend Cloud capabilities with AI-native solutions across Console Platform, Cloud SDK, gcloud CLI, and Cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience as a Software Engineering leader with experience in full stack web development.
• Experience in web, mobile, and SDK/CLI development.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional leadership to align on multi-year roadmaps prioritizing high-leverage investments.
• Create scalable, secure designs enabling internal platform stakeholders and AI-powered UI experiences on web and mobile.
• Mentor senior tech leads and raise the organization’s engineering bar through collaboration.
• Serve as a technical bridge across product boundaries to unify strategy for long-term innovation and near-term execution.

Skills

Technical leadership

Platform building

Software architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
• 15 years of experience as a Software Engineering leader with experience in full stack web development
• Experience in web, mobile, and SDK/CLI development

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Experience leading initiatives, developing policies, and driving thought leadership for internal developer platforms and large-scale systems
• Experience with driving alignment with API resource model and data models, reconciling existing systems with new ones
• Experience with inter-team/cross-functional leadership
• Ability to build and drive technical roadmap and design with a broader engineering organization
• Awareness of industry trends in AI and ML technologies and how to apply those at scale to both the team’s product and platform investments

About the job:

The Cloud Surfaces team is committed to delivering a seamless and enjoyable user experience across all Google Cloud products and meeting our customers where they are. We strive for consistency across channels as we drive towards a unified, AI Native experience.

Our focus is on addressing the challenges of creating cohesive experiences due to limitations in modularity and composability, architectural complexities, and the need for rapid innovation. We aim to achieve this through a multichannel outlook that promotes shared product outlook, UX design, and coordinated roadmaps, working across the product teams that make up Google Cloud. The surfaces we cover include the Console Platform, Cloud SDK, gcloud CLI, and Cloud Mobile Application.

As Principal Engineer, you will collaborate to create, oversee, and support technical outlook and strategy for this effort, with a deep focus on platform acceleration for product teams, supporting new, innovative AI Native experiences, and extending the reach of Google Cloud.

In this role, you will utilize deep technical expertise in software engineering, platform building, front-end web and mobile development, and the desire to mentor tech leads and build a strong organizational bench. Beyond technical delivery, you will possess the relationship-building skills to influence across boundaries. You'll partner closely with various product teams across Google Cloud. In addition, you will work with other stakeholders across the company to understand constraints and requirements, and translate them into technical designs and implementations.

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.

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Partner with cross-functional leadership (e.g., product managers, UX, engineering managers, tech leaders, technical program managers) and organizations to align on a multi-year roadmap that prioritizes the highest-leverage investments and enables the transformation of the Cloud Surfaces experiences
• Create scalable, reliable, secure, and efficient designs that enable internal platform stakeholders to effectively build on, including supporting next generation, AI powered UI experiences on web and mobile, and accelerating SDK and CLI development.
• Raise the organization's collective technical bar by actively mentoring senior tech leads and fostering a culture of engineering, peer-growth, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Act as a technical bridge across product boundaries, aligning engineering teams and stakeholders behind a shared strategy for both long-term innovation and near term tactical execution with a focus on platform re-usability.