Principal Engineer, GDC Storage — Enterprise Cloud Scale

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Maternity/paternity leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Storage Architect for the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to lead the storage strategy and execution for on-premise and hybrid environments. You will influence software engineers, partner with product and engineering managers, and help shape the GDC storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

You will guide a team, collaborate across functions, and drive high-performance storage solutions that integrate with Google Cloud AI-led services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of cloud computing experience including enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms and data.
• 10 years building enterprise storage systems.
• Experience with private/public cloud design: developer/productivity, virtualization, containers, HPC, data, security, automation.
• Experience guiding teams to deliver services for internal/external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with tech leads to develop a strategic roadmap for GDCE storage.
• Work with global team to balance architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
• Drive strategic roadmap to scale GDC Storage and data protection.
• Lead the overall storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.

Skills

Cloud computing

Leadership

Technical guidance

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's or PhD in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

System virtualization

Cloud monitoring & logging

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Storage Architect for the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to lead the storage strategy and execution for on-premise and hybrid environments. You will influence software engineers, partner with product and engineering managers, and help shape the GDC storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

You will guide a team, collaborate across functions, and drive high-performance storage solutions that integrate with Google Cloud AI-led services.