
Tech lead, Persistent Disk Control Plane
Multiple U.S. locationsJob$262–364K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Tech Lead will provide technical and thought leadership for Google’s Persistent Disk control plane team and its partners and customers. The role focuses on evolving the control plane, setting technical and product direction, and delivering reliable, scalable, efficient distributed services. The lead will guide engineers and drive projects across organizational boundaries.
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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:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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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
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of software development experience or experience with a relevant advanced degree.
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5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
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3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
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Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical goals and direction, and experience with distributed systems (e.g., load-balancing and replication techniques, distributed consensus, and handling of network and hardware failures).
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Experience architecting and developing distributed systems: Unix/Linux environments, REST API development (throttling, latency, quota management.), distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, storage, networking, developing software systems, or security software development.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience in control plane infrastructure for distributed services, API performance tuning, security/compliance across resources, customer workflow simplification and observability.
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Experience with multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization, including synchronization primitives, trade-offs, data locality, caching, and pitfalls (e.g., ABA and false sharing).
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.
In this role, you will provide technical and thought leadership for the Persistent Disk control plane team, the rest of GCE Control Plane organization (Compute, Networking, Minfra), our partners and customers to evolve PD Control Plane, delight users, and grow the business.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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Provide feedback to technical leaders and cultivate a culture of inclusiveness and engineering excellence. Coach and mentor engineers to design and implement highly available and reliable services.
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Establish technology and product goals in collaboration with product management, SRE and software engineers.
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Architect and design features aimed at providing the highest levels of reliability, compliance, scalability and efficiency in a distributed and performance-sensitive control plane.
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Oversee and guide the team to design high performance and scalable control plane features, support end user APIs and provide clear, concise and unambiguous API surfaces. Integrating with various lower stack layers for providing deeper functionality.
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Drive end-to-end execution of projects within and cross-organization, identify technical risks and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders. Be proactive, self-driven, responsible; own problems end-to-end. Identify problems worth solving.
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How this job compares
Set against the 8,933 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$262–364K/yr
- Washington median$167–260K/yr418 salary ranges
- US median$146–253K/yr6,854 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $313K, is 48% above the Washington median midpoint ($212K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 487 open Software Engineering jobs in Washington and 8,933 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Microsoft Corporation68 open
- Amazon62 open
- Google (this employer)28 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 6,743 postings).
- Education
- 2,157 of the 8,933 open Software Engineering jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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