Senior Principal Engineer, GDC Storage & Data Protection

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Google LLC is hiring for a leadership role in Google Distributed Cloud Storage and Data Protection. You will guide a team of software engineers, partner with product managers, and shape the storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

The role emphasizes leading technical strategy, collaboration across teams, and delivering scalable storage solutions for enterprise environments.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with tech leads to define a strategic storage roadmap for GDC.
• Work with a global team of engineers and PMs to balance architecture, time-to-market, and goals.
• Drive systems, tools, and infrastructure roadmap to scale GDC Storage.
• Lead the overall Storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.

Skills

Cloud computing

Enterprise storage

Public & private cloud design

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Virtualization

Cloud monitoring & logging

On-premise/hybrid cloud

Job description

Google LLC is hiring for a leadership role in Google Distributed Cloud Storage and Data Protection. You will guide a team of software engineers, partner with product managers, and shape the storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets.

The role emphasizes leading technical strategy, collaboration across teams, and delivering scalable storage solutions for enterprise environments.