Tech Lead, Google Kubernetes Engine AI Platform

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 301,000; 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

Sick leave 69 hours/year (Seattle)

Job summary

Google Cloud engineers seek a software professional to lead AI Platform initiatives within GKE, driving reliability, efficiency, and scale for AI/ML workloads. You will partner with customers to ensure successful adoption of GKE and GCP, influencing the broader cloud stack and ongoing innovations.

The role emphasizes design leadership, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on optimization across distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud services in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in cloud computing and building operating systems.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience with distributed systems, data analytics, and applied ML.
• Experience with AI infrastructure (GPU/TPU, Networking, etc.) management and orchestration.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and Cloud.
• Excellent problem-solving, code and model tuning skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as an AI Platform TL, driving innovation on GKE AI/ML infra reliability, efficiency and scale.
• Engage with Megawhale customers to ensure their success/growth on GKE/Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Identify gaps and drive improvement across entire GKE/Google Compute Engine (GCE) stack.
• Help shape the culture of the team to be a high executing team that is fun to work with.
• Lead the technical goal for GKE AI/ML workload efficiency and optimization, setting the direction.

Skills

Software development

Cloud computing

Distributed systems

Data analytics

Applied ML

AI infrastructure management

Cloud orchestration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AI infrastructure tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• 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: Seattle, WA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience in cloud computing and building operating systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience with distributed systems, data analytics, and applied ML.
• Experience with AI infrastructure (GPU/TPU, Networking, etc.) management and orchestration.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems, and Cloud.
• Excellent problem-solving, code and model tuning skills.

About The Job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) AI Platform team is responsible for managing containerized workloads and services on the AI infrastructure (GPUs/TPUs) using Kubernetes (K8s)—an open-source platform. As GKE experiences exponential growth in the AI, ML, and GenAI sectors, our team ensures that this infrastructure is automated, frictionless, and capable of managing the next generation of cloud computing.

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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Act as an AI Platform TL, driving innovation on GKE AI/ML infra reliability, efficiency and scale.
• Engage with Megawhale customers to ensure their success/growth on GKE/Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Identify gaps and drive improvement across entire GKE/Google Compute Engine (GCE) stack.
• Help shape the culture of the team to be a high executing team that is fun to work with.
• Lead the technical goal for GKE AI/ML workload efficiency and optimization, setting the direction.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.