Google

Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud

Google$307K — $428K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 15 years of experience in cloud computing including enterprise applications and infrastructure.
  • 10 years of experience in building enterprise storage systems.
  • Knowledge of development and operations productivity, virtualization, containers, and data security.
  • Experience providing technical guidance to teams for service delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with tech leads to create a strategic roadmap for reliability improvements.
  • Work with a global team to balance architecture decisions with business goals.
  • Drive strategic development for systems, tools, and infrastructure enhancements for GDC Storage.
  • Lead end-to-end technical strategy for GDC Storage solutions.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company matching contributions
  • 20 days of vacation per year
  • 40 hours of sick time per year (increased for Seattle)
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays per year
Full Job Description
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X 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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in cloud computing (e.g., enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms and data).
  • 10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems.
  • Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of developer and operator productivity, virtualization, containers, high performance computing, data, security and config/policy automation.
  • Experience providing technical guidance and working with teams to deliver services for internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience in designing and implementing large-scale filesystems or distributed storage systems.
  • Experience leading product development of 2nd generation cloud products at scale.
  • Experience with any of the following IaaS solutions: Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing, cloud identity and security system, cloud monitoring and logging, or local and cloud storage.
  • Technical expertise in systems and software with the leadership skills needed to influence technical leaders across the company.


About the job

With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), we are creating the industry's leading private and hybrid cloud offering that brings our customers Google Cloud's AI-led Services and Infrastructure on an on-premise platform that is simple, secure and scalable.

GDC Storage includes all aspects of a large enterprise storage system - high performance block storage, shared file storage and large-scale object storage along with support for backup and restore functions. GDC is targeting large-scale deployments in highly secure and sovereign environments. Storage plays a critical role in these systems for data protection.

In this role, you will be responsible for execution for GDC Storage and Data Protection. You will directly influence a team of software engineers, work closely with product management and engineering managers to define and execute on the storage for GDC roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. You'll inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust among a set of stakeholders and partners.

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: $307000 - $428000 (USD) 30% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with peer tech leads in Google Distributed Cloud Edge Delivery (GDCE) to develop a strategic roadmap to remediate all reliability findings.
  • Collaborate with a global team of engineers and product managers to execute making appropriate tradeoffs between architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
  • Drive systems and tools, and infrastructure strategic roadmap and development to improve the ability to scale GDC Storage.
  • Lead the overall Storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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