Principal Engineer, GDC Storage & Cloud Infra

Google LLC; Seattle (WA); 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) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Storage Architect for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Storage and Data Protection. You will influence a team of engineers and work with product management to define and execute storage roadmaps across public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

The role requires leading enterprise storage initiatives, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring scalable, secure storage solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 15 years of cloud computing experience across enterprise apps, infrastructure, storage and data.
• 10 years building enterprise storage systems.
• Experience with private/public cloud design, virtualization, containers, HPC, data security, and automation.
• Experience guiding teams to deliver services for internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with peer tech leads to define a strategic roadmap to remediate reliability findings.
• Work with global engineers and product managers to balance architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
• Drive storage-related systems and tooling roadmaps to scale GDC Storage.
• Lead the overall storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.

Skills

Cloud computing

Enterprise storage

Kubernetes

Virtualization

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's/PhD in CS/EE

Tools

Kubernetes

Virtualization

Cloud monitoring

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Senior Storage Architect for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Storage and Data Protection. You will influence a team of engineers and work with product management to define and execute storage roadmaps across public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

The role requires leading enterprise storage initiatives, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring scalable, secure storage solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.