
Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CAJob$307–427K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed 2w ago
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The Principal Engineer will lead the technical strategy and execution for Google Distributed Cloud Storage and Data Protection. The role works with software engineers, product managers, engineering managers, and stakeholders to shape the storage roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. Google Distributed Cloud provides private and hybrid cloud services on an on-premise platform, with storage spanning block, file, and object systems and backup and restore.
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info_outline XIn 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:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- 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
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA; Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
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15 years of experience in cloud computing (e.g., enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms and data).
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10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems.
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Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of developer and operator productivity, virtualization, containers, high performance computing, data, security and config/policy automation.
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Experience providing technical guidance and working with teams to deliver services for internal and external stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale filesystems or distributed storage systems.
- Experience leading product development of 2nd generation cloud products at scale.
- Experience with any of the following IaaS solutions: Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-premise or hybrid cloud computing, cloud identity and security system, cloud monitoring and logging, or local and cloud storage.
- Technical expertise in systems and software with the leadership skills needed to influence technical leaders across the company.
About the job With Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), we are creating the industry’s leading private and hybrid cloud offering that brings our customers Google Cloud’s AI-led Services and Infrastructure on an on-premise platform that is simple, secure and scalable.
GDC Storage includes all aspects of a large enterprise storage system - high performance block storage, shared file storage and large-scale object storage along with support for backup and restore functions. GDC is targeting large-scale deployments in highly secure and sovereign environments. Storage plays a critical role in these systems for data protection.
In this role, you will be responsible for execution for GDC Storage and Data Protection. You will directly influence a team of software engineers, work closely with product management and engineering managers to define and execute on the storage for GDC roadmap for public sector, retail, and telecom markets. You'll inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust among a set of stakeholders and partners. 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. Responsibilities
- Collaborate with peer tech leads in Google Distributed Cloud Edge Delivery (GDCE) to develop a strategic roadmap to remediate all reliability findings.
- Collaborate with a global team of engineers and product managers to execute making appropriate tradeoffs between architecture, time-to-market, and business goals.
- Drive systems and tools, and infrastructure strategic roadmap and development to improve the ability to scale GDC Storage.
- Lead the overall Storage end-to-end technical strategy for GDC.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,288 open Principal Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$307–427K/yr
- California median$175–271K/yr364 salary ranges
- US median$140–251K/yr1,942 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $367K, is 67% above the California median midpoint ($220K) — in the top quarter of Principal Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 401 open Principal Engineer jobs in California and 2,288 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Principal Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,862 postings).
- Education
- 1,118 of the 2,288 open Principal Engineer jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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