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Principal Engineer, File Solutions

Principal Engineer, File Solutions

55 Minutes ago • 15 Years + • DevOps

About the job

Summary

The Principal Engineer, File Solutions will drive technical decision-making and prioritization across File Solutions integration with external/internal products. This role requires guiding a global team of engineers in India, Tel Aviv, and Kirkland in technical design, ensuring high quality, reliability, and development velocity. Collaboration with engineering and product leadership to set priorities and build a strategic roadmap is crucial. The position involves working closely with developer partners and external companies to create optimal file solutions for enterprise and HPC/AI/ML customers, focusing on seamless cloud migration and integration with GCP services. The team provides fully managed file services, aiming to be the authoritative source for all file solutions within GCP.

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Must have:

15+ years experience with distributed systems
Experience building storage systems
Technical leadership experience
Cloud computing experience (GCP)
Drive technical decision making
Guide engineering teams

Good to have:

Building complex systems from scratch
Excellent communication skills
Experience with large-scale customers

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Minimum qualifications:

15 years of experience with distributed systems and architectures
Experience with building storage systems and hosting business critical data
Experience in technical leadership, leading global projects and setting technical direction for teams
Experience working in a cloud computing environment (e.g., infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data).

Preferred qualifications:

Experience building complicated systems from scratch including modeling to reason about their behavior from first principles
Excellent communication skills and experience interacting with large-scale customers.

About the job

The File Solutions team provides a set of fully managed file services for Enterprise and HPC and AI/ML customers addressing workloads (e.g., SAP, GKE applications, etc.). The team facilitates seamless migration to cloud, hybrid cloud solutions, and seamless integration with other File solutions and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions and services.

The team's goal is to be the authoritative one stop shop for all file solutions in GCP, serving large-scale strategic customers and managing customer data, while maintaining the highest performance, scale, reliability, usability, quality, and observability as well as ownership of the whole file portfolio, whether built from the ground up internally or via integration with third-party and open source technologies.

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

Drive the technical decision making and prioritization across File Solutions integration with external/internal products (e.g., Filestore , NetApp, PFS/DAOS) and infras to create a superb experience to our customers covering all the workloads and needs.
Guide a team of engineers based in India, Tel Aviv, and Kirkland through technical design directions for creating the best file solutions for our customers achieving high quality, reliability, and development velocity.
Collaborate with engineering and product leadership on setting priorities and building strategic roadmap as well as multiple local and remote teams serving the product portfolio (e.g., UX, UI etc.).
Build relationships, and collaborate with and work closely with various Developer partners and external companies we integrate with to create the best solution including all the technical aspects.

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