Principal Engineer, Cloud Surfaces — Platform & AI UI

Google; United States; On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer for Cloud Surfaces to drive platform acceleration and deliver AI-native experiences across web and mobile. You will mentor tech leads, shape multi-year roadmaps, and collaborate with product teams across Google Cloud to ensure scalable, reusable platform designs.

You will partner with engineers and leaders to align strategies, influence cross-functional decisions, and accelerate SDK/CLI development while advancing the surfaces portfolio.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional leadership 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.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Full stack web development

Web development

Mobile development

SDK/CLI development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's or PhD in CS

Job description

Google Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer for Cloud Surfaces to drive platform acceleration and deliver AI-native experiences across web and mobile. You will mentor tech leads, shape multi-year roadmaps, and collaborate with product teams across Google Cloud to ensure scalable, reusable platform designs.

You will partner with engineers and leaders to align strategies, influence cross-functional decisions, and accelerate SDK/CLI development while advancing the surfaces portfolio.