Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud

Google; Cambridge (MA); 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 (vacation)

Job summary

Google LLC in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Share Principal Engineer for GDC Storage to lead the storage strategy and execution within Google Cloud’s on-premise GDC offering. The role focuses on high‑scale enterprise storage systems, collaboration with product management, and guiding teams in private and public cloud integration.

The ideal candidate has extensive cloud and storage leadership experience, strong technical vision, and the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in cloud computing.
• 10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems.
• Experience with private and public cloud design considerations, 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 develop a strategic storage roadmap for GDC Storage and Data Protection.
• Collaborate with a global team of engineers and product managers to balance architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
• Drive systems and tools, and infrastructure roadmap to scale GDC Storage.
• Lead the overall storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.

Skills

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Storage systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Share Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in cloud computing (e.g., enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms and data).

10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems.

• Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of developer and operator productivity, virtualization, containers, high performance computing, data, security and config/policy automation.
• Experience providing technical guidance and working with teams to deliver services for internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in designing and implementing large-scale filesystems or distributed storage systems.
• Experience leading product development of 2nd generation cloud products at scale.
• Experience with any of the following IaaS solutions: Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing, cloud identity and security system, cloud monitoring and logging, or local and cloud storage.
• Technical expertise in systems and software with the leadership skills needed to influence technical leaders across the company.

About the job

With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), we are creating the industry’s leading private and hybrid cloud offering that brings our customers Google Cloud’s AI-led Services and Infrastructure on an on-premise platform that is simple, secure and scalable.

GDC Storage includes all aspects of a large enterprise storage system - high performance block storage, shared file storage and large-scale object storage along with support for backup and restore functions. GDC is targeting large-scale deployments in highly secure and sovereign environments. Storage plays a critical role in these systems for data protection.

In this role, you will be responsible for execution for GDC Storage and Data Protection. You will directly influence a team of software engineers, work closely with product management and engineering managers to define and execute on the storage for GDC roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. You'll inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust among a set of stakeholders and partners.

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.

About the job

With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), we are creating the industry’s leading private and hybrid cloud offering that brings our customers Google Cloud’s AI-led Services and Infrastructure on an on-premise platform that is simple, secure and scalable.

GDC Storage includes all aspects of a large enterprise storage system - high performance block storage, shared file storage and large-scale object storage along with support for backup and restore functions. GDC is targeting large-scale deployments in highly secure and sovereign environments. Storage plays a critical role in these systems for data protection.

In this role, you will be responsible for execution for GDC Storage and Data Protection. You will directly influence a team of software engineers, work closely with product management and engineering managers to define and execute on the storage for GDC roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. You’ll inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust among a set of stakeholders and partners.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Collaborate with peer tech leads in Google Distributed Cloud Edge Delivery (GDCE) to develop a strategic roadmap to remediate all reliability findings.
• Collaborate with a global team of engineers and product managers to execute making appropriate tradeoffs between architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
• Drive systems and tools, and infrastructure strategic roadmap and development to improve the ability to scale GDC Storage.
• Lead the overall Storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.

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