Engineering Leader, Google COE

Fractal
Any Location, CA
Remote
Job Description
Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Engineering Lead with deep expertise across both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google's internal First-Party (1P) Engineering Ecosystem. This role goes beyond solution architecture, driving architecture, engineering execution, delivery governance, reliability, and innovation across large-scale enterprise programs.

What You Will Do

Define long-term technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives, lead architecture and design for data, analytics, AI/ML, and platform engineering initiatives, drive engineering standards, code quality, platform governance, and architectural consistency.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of software engineering and distributed systems experience, strong hands-on expertise building large-scale platforms using GCP, prior Google experience or substantial exposure to Google's 1P ecosystem, experience leading teams as a Technical Lead (TL) or Engineering Lead, and deep understanding of distributed systems, data platforms, AI/ML systems, and cloud-native architectures.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering experience
  • Proven leadership as an Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, Staff Engineer, or Principal Engineer
  • Experience delivering enterprise-scale distributed systems
  • Hands-on expertise with BigQuery, Dataflow, Vertex AI, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, GKE, Cloud Run, Serverless technologies, and Python, Go, Data Systems
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, PLX, Dremel, Spanner, Distributed data platforms, DevOps & MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Containerization, Kubernetes, Automated testing, MLOps platforms

Benefits

  • health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans
  • 401(k) Plan
  • 11 paid holidays
  • 12 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Free time PTO policy
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