Principal Engineer, Cloud Business Platform

info_outlineXNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience working with data, APIs, and metrics-oriented products.
• Experience in leadership.
• Experience leading software engineers without direct management responsibility.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building software and distributed systems at scale, and working on enterprise cloud applications and products.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence without authority, working on and with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report to you to achieve goals.
• Excellent innovation and problem-solving skills to turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions, comfort with new technology, and ability to think outside the box to develop and implement short and long-term creative solutions.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a Principal Engineer for Google Cloud Business Platform (GCBP), you will guide the architecture of highly scalable enterprise applications used by Google Cloud customers and partners, and Googlers. You will have technical oversight of first-party platforms and related aspects of architecture, technology platform choices, and features, and consult on the integration of third-party technologies. You will act as an escalation point for complex technical decisions and function as a trusted partner for defining short-term tactical approaches and longer term strategies. You will coach software engineers and teams, and set organizational engineering excellence best practices. Working closely with counterparts across Google Cloud Business Platform (GCBP) and other Google Cloud teams, you will drive technology innovation that has a significant, real-world impact in enabling Google Cloud's continued growth.

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 technical outlook and strategy for the GCBP  organization.
• Deliver high quality and impactful launches through close partnership with all of GCBP and the Cloud Business teams.
• Build a collaborative work environment, helping others in the organization execute to their maximum potential and actively develop and expand talent through effective mentoring and coaching.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Program Management, and other teams to create, drive, and deliver an innovative, compelling experience to our customers. Identify and solve cross-functional and inter-team issues efficiently.
• Lead software development efforts by driving architecture selection, software design, execution, and operations to build out architectures that are resilient to change.

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