Principal Engineer, GDC Storage & Data Protection

Google LLC; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google Distributed Cloud storage leadership role is seeking a senior engineer to execute storage strategy and guide a team of software engineers. You will work with product management to define the storage roadmap for GDC across public sector, retail, and telecom markets, inspiring teams and earning trust among stakeholders and partners.

The role emphasizes building on-google cloud storage capabilities, with responsibilities spanning high-performance block and file storage, and large-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master's degree or PhD in a related field is preferred.
• Extensive cloud computing experience and enterprise storage system development.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Leadership

Technical guidance

Cross-team collaboration

Cloud design considerations

Kubernetes

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD in CS/EE or related field (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

System virtualization

Cloud monitoring and logging

Job description

Google Distributed Cloud storage leadership role is seeking a senior engineer to execute storage strategy and guide a team of software engineers. You will work with product management to define the storage roadmap for GDC across public sector, retail, and telecom markets, inspiring teams and earning trust among stakeholders and partners.

The role emphasizes building on-google cloud storage capabilities, with responsibilities spanning high-performance block and file storage, and large-scale