Principal Engineer, Gemini in Databases

5 days ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Google Full time ₹ 20,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience working as a technical software engineering leader or 13 years with an advanced degree.
  • Experience with technical innovation within cross-functional engineering environments.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline.
  • Experience successfully producing software products and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with building enterprise grade and highly scalable cloud platforms, products, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with Operating Systems, Distributed systems, IaaS Components.
About the job

We are seeking a highly accomplished and visionary Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and development for Google Cloud's next generation of AI-powered database intelligence. This pivotal role will focus on integrating cutting-edge Gemini AI capabilities across our database offerings, delivering proactive insights, and transforming how customers manage and optimize their database environments.

In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of database operations. You will define the long-term technical strategy for these groundbreaking initiatives, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and research leadership to ensure seamless alignment between technology innovation and business objectives. You will leverage your deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, large-scale data systems, and applied AI to design and build highly scalable, secure, and intuitive solutions.

You'll work alongside other technical leads on complex problems spanning applied AI, agentic architectures, and distributed systems ensuring operational excellence, production accuracy, and exceptional software quality. Your leadership will be critical in driving engineering productivity and establishing Google Cloud as the undisputed leader in AI-powered intelligent databases.

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.

Responsibilities
  • Provide architecture and technical direction for the team by being an expert in cloud application management.
  • Strategize and create the technical roadmap for building agentic, LLM powered, platforms, analytics, and tooling to transform the Google Cloud Databases experiences.
  • Influence, guide, mentor, and direct multiple Engineering Technical Leads across each product area.

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.

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