About the role

What will you do at Google?

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

ABOUT THE JOB:

The Cloud Surfaces team is committed to delivering a seamless and enjoyable user

experience across all Google Cloud products and meeting our customers where they

are. We strive for consistency across channels as we drive towards a unified, AI

Native experience.

Our focus is on addressing the challenges of creating cohesive experiences due

to limitations in modularity and composability, architectural complexities, and

the need for rapid innovation. We aim to achieve this through a multichannel

outlook that promotes shared product outlook, UX design, and coordinated

roadmaps, working across the product teams that make up Google Cloud. The

surfaces we cover include the Console Platform, Cloud SDK, gcloud CLI, and Cloud

Mobile Application.

As Principal Engineer, you will collaborate to create, oversee, and support

technical outlook and strategy for this effort, with a deep focus on platform

acceleration for product teams, supporting new, innovative AI Native

experiences, and extending the reach of Google Cloud.

In this role, you will

utilize deep technical expertise in software engineering,
platform building, front-end web and mobile development, and the desire to
mentor tech leads and build a strong organizational bench. Beyond technical
delivery, you will possess the relationship-building skills to influence across
boundaries. You'll partner closely with various product teams across Google
Cloud. In addition, you will work with other stakeholders across the company to
understand constraints and requirements, and translate them into technical
designs and implementations.
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
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
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.

Which skills does this role require?

Software engineeringFull stack web developmentMobile developmentSDK developmentCLI developmentAPI resource modelingData modelingPlatform buildingMentorshipSystem architectureSoftware EngineeringFull StackWeb DevelopmentMobile DevelopmentPlatform AccelerationSystem ArchitectureScalabilityCloud ComputingEnterprise SolutionsDigital TransformationGCPMachine LearningProduct Strategy

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