Principal Engineer, Cloud Surfaces

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 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional leadership (e.g., product managers, UX, engineering managers, tech leaders, technical program managers) and organizations to align on a multi-year roadmap that prioritizes the highest-leverage investments and enables the transformation of the Cloud Surfaces experiences
• Create scalable, reliable, secure, and efficient designs that enable internal platform stakeholders to effectively build on, including supporting next generation, AI powered UI experiences on web and mobile, and accelerating SDK and CLI development.
• Raise the organization's collective technical bar by actively mentoring senior tech leads and fostering a culture of engineering, peer-growth, and collaborative problem-solving. 
• Act as a technical bridge across product boundaries, aligning engineering teams and stakeholders behind a shared strategy for both long-term innovation and near term tactical execution with a focus on platform re-usability.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
  
• 15 years of experience as a Software Engineering leader with experience in full stack web development
• Experience in web, mobile, and SDK/CLI development

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Experience leading initiatives, developing policies, and driving thought leadership for internal developer platforms and large-scale systems
• Experience with driving alignment with API resource model and data models, reconciling existing systems with new ones
• Experience with inter-team/cross-functional leadership
• Ability to build and drive technical roadmap and design with a broader engineering organization
• Awareness of industry trends in AI and ML technologies and how to apply those at scale to both the team’s product and platform investments

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

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