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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Engineer, GDC Storage, Google Cloud - **Company:** Google LLC - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $307,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Distributed Data Store, Hardware Virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Identity and Access Management, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, High Performance Computing, Cloud Monitoring, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Management - **Published:** October 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.seattlejobs.com/job.asp?id=3425131893&tx=FL232FFG&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar field, or equivalent practical experience. * 15 years of experience in cloud computing (e.g., enterprise applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms and data). * 10 years of experience building enterprise storage systems. * 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. * 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. ## Description * 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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