Staff Engineer & Technical Lead, Storage Systems

Google; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Engineer/Technical Lead for Google Distributed Cloud Storage in Cambridge, MA (with locations in Raleigh, NC and others). You will own storage architecture decisions, lead complex projects, and mentor teams while delivering secure, scalable file and block storage solutions across air-gapped environments.

You will influence cross-functional partners, drive performance optimization, and help shape the roadmap for stateful storage within Google Cloud’s edge-to-cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or storage/compute hardware.
• 4 years designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-grade file and block storage architectures.
• 3 years experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years storage performance characterization, benchmarking, or latency optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and architect core file, block, and AI/ML storage solutions within the GDC air-gapped ecosystem.
• Define, isolate, and optimize storage performance to meet iops, throughput, and latency benchmarks with secure multi-tenant VM environments.
• Build observability, monitoring, and automated remediation to guarantee high-availability storage operations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to scale the GDC architecture against growing demands.
• Mentor engineers and establish robust development processes and governance.

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Problem solving

Stakeholder influence

Distributed systems

Leadership

Software design

Performance optimization

AI/ML storage

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Engineer/Technical Lead for Google Distributed Cloud Storage in Cambridge, MA (with locations in Raleigh, NC and others). You will own storage architecture decisions, lead complex projects, and mentor teams while delivering secure, scalable file and block storage solutions across air-gapped environments.

You will influence cross-functional partners, drive performance optimization, and help shape the roadmap for stateful storage within Google Cloud’s edge-to-cloud