Senior Staff Cloud Engineer - AI-Driven Ops Lead

Google; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Tech Lead in Trusted Partner Cloud (TPC) Operations to drive strategy and execution for scalable, sovereign clouds that operate reliably at global scale. You will lead cross‑functional teams, define multi‑year roadmaps, and develop AI‑powered tooling to reduce toil, improve incident response, and accelerate region turn‑ups.

The role reports to senior engineering leaders and offers exposure to large-scale production infrastructure, partnerships with external operators, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• Experience architecting, deploying, or managing large-scale cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Experience managing incident response, mitigating failures, and configuring monitoring or alert systems for production environments.
• Experience building automation, internal tooling, or AI-driven solutions to replace manual operational work.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap to optimize Trusted Partner Cloud (TPC) operations, systematically reducing cognitive load, toil, and operational risks for both Google engineering teams and external partner operators.
• Develop and implement operational strategies that minimize correlated failures across isolated sovereign universes, ensuring that operational load scales sublinearly as new regions are launched.
• Lead the technical convergence and integration of turn-up graphs to streamline new region and service deployments, providing senior technical oversight for critical production and staging environments.
• Lead the design and adoption of AI/ML solutions—including in-universe agentic tooling and RAG-driven diagnostics—to shift operations from manual intervention to policy-supervised automation.
• Partner with VPs, engineering leads, and partner operator teams to establish clear roles, align on incident response protocols, and drive the adoption of sustainable operational models across complex organizational structures.

Skills

C++ programming

Cloud infra experience

Incident response

Automation tooling

AI-driven solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GCE

Job description

Google is seeking a Tech Lead in Trusted Partner Cloud (TPC) Operations to drive strategy and execution for scalable, sovereign clouds that operate reliably at global scale. You will lead cross‑functional teams, define multi‑year roadmaps, and develop AI‑powered tooling to reduce toil, improve incident response, and accelerate region turn‑ups.

The role reports to senior engineering leaders and offers exposure to large-scale production infrastructure, partnerships with external operators, and