Tech Lead, Trusted Partner Cloud Operations

engineeringjobs.net, Inc.; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Lead for Trusted Partner Cloud in the U.S. with advanced PLC experience. You will drive a multi-year technical roadmap, guide cross-team initiatives, and design AI/ML-powered automation to reduce toil while scaling sovereign cloud regions.

Strong leadership and deep distributed systems expertise are essential. Location includes New York or Sunnyvale with a focus on reliable, scalable production environments and collaboration with external

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++

Distributed systems

Incident response

Automation tooling

AI/ML tooling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP (GCE)

Job description

Google is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Lead for Trusted Partner Cloud in the U.S. with advanced PLC experience. You will drive a multi-year technical roadmap, guide cross-team initiatives, and design AI/ML-powered automation to reduce toil while scaling sovereign cloud regions.

Strong leadership and deep distributed systems expertise are essential. Location includes New York or Sunnyvale with a focus on reliable, scalable production environments and collaboration with external