Principal Engineer, Google Cloud VMware Engine

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in hardware and software design, data structures, and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree.
• Experience delivering successfully within stipulated timelines.
• Experience successfully building software and large-scale distributed systems.
• Understanding of private and public cloud design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, global infrastructure, hypervisor technologies, networking, data storage, and security.
• Ability to work cross-functionally, partnering with groups such as Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, UX, and UI, brokering trade-offs with stakeholders and understanding their needs.
• Excellent narrative and storytelling skills that propel usage, adoption, and market momentum.

Responsibilities

• Develop a technical roadmap for the Google Cloud VMware Engine organization to constantly innovate and implement novel systems solutions.
• Design, build, and deploy solutions that leverage Google compute platforms, highly-scalable hardware, networking, and software infrastructure to deliver compelling systems for VMware workloads at a very large-scale.
• Work across engineering teams that build, design, and implement hardware and software, and that span across infrastructure including platforms, server architecture, compute, storage, networking, and data analytics. 
• Influence and establish best engineering practices to manage robust and scalable systems to get ahead of the exponential market demand. 
• Provide leadership for cloud developer technology inside Google and manage collaboration with cross-functional Engineering teams to streamline and improve adoption of Google Cloud Platform capabilities, both within Google as well as for the cloud industry at large.