Principal Engineer, AI, Trust, Security, Site Reliability Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in technical leadership and setting technical direction for engineering projects.
• Experience in architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience partnering and leading by influence, as well as working with stakeholders and collaborating across organizational boundaries.
• Experience developing and implementing technical programs in security and/or AI engineering or product/platform design.
• Leadership experience in the security, reliability, and resilience space. Experience having impact over a large-scale of users.
• Experience leading and implementing engineering projects at an executive level within multinational and distributed organizations.
• Understanding of compute, networking, application stacks, and supporting product features, services, and technologies.

About the job

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Create the reality of a stable, secure, and trustworthy integrated cloud AI platform for a diverse pool of customers and workloads worldwide.
• Balance feature velocity with reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with a wide and diverse array of teams working in the Cloud AI, Security, and Sovereign Workloads space to set the technical direction for AI, trust, and security.
• Challenge our approach and status quo to elevate our platform reliability, security, and resilience beyond our current capabilities.
• Contribute to our most complex technical projects and externally visible product decisions, using your technical acumen, problem-solving abilities, and good judgment to help build scalable and future-proof Google systems.