Principal Engineer, Core Data
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Minimum qualifications:
- 15 years of experience in software development or 10 years with an advanced degree.
- Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems, and experience in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization.
- Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
- Ability to understand the complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives, and quickly respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
- Ability to cultivate ideas across organizational boundaries that create strategic opportunities that are greater than what is possible within a single product area.
- Excellent problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale.
About the job
As a Principal Engineer, you will operate across Core split between multiple locations globally, with a particular focus on Core Data. You will work with executive Developer stakeholders to ensure alignment and on strategic technological planning. You will mentor and grow technical talent across the product area and ensure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is delivering significant relevant engineering efforts. You will have a chance to have a very broad strategic impact across engineers and make a difference to Google's business.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $294,000-$414,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Work with executive Core Data stakeholders with a specific focus on Ads and Search to understand, align, and improve reliability challenges and needs.
- Be strategically involved in planning across Core Data, influencing SRE and Developer roadmaps with reliability work and tech debt reduction.
- Identify classes of issues (i.e., change safety, overload management) and methods to prioritize and address in a constrained environment, influencing teams to align and deliver.
- Help mentor/grow technical talent across the Core Data SRE. Support Tech Leads and Individuals Contributors in understanding the bigger picture and be a representative of craftsmanship, simplicity, and tech debt reduction.
- Spread production knowledge to the Developer organization and keep people in Core Data SRE and Core Data up-to-date on the evolution of products/platforms, best practices, standards, and policies within production.
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