Principal Engineer

About the job

As Principal Engineer, you will collaborate to create, oversee and support technical vision and strategy for three product areas dedicated to providing 1P and 3P security offerings and infrastructure. This includes leading the evolution of Google Trust Services (GTS), the world's 2nd largest public Certificate Authority (CA) protecting more page views than any other CA, and our Certificate Authority Service (CAS), which provides a turnkey solution for the creation and management of highly scalable, secure, and compliant private Certificate Authorities. You will also help steer the long-term direction of our Production Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), providing digital certificates to all internal infrastructure services including those responsible for securing high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC), RDMA, cloud networking, and other traffic along with hardware identity. This role requires a balance of building next-generation product offerings while iteratively hardening existing infrastructure, ensuring they remain compliant, resilient and reliable.

You won't just react to problems; you will anticipate them. You will navigate a vast and complex security landscape, synthesizing signals from across the company and PKI ecosystem to identify high-impact initiatives to prioritize. Your leadership will ensure that our engineering efforts are always directed toward the most important priorities for Google and our users.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $307,000-$427,000 + 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

• Provide architecture and technical direction by being an expert in Security, Gen AI and cloud application management. Consult on OKRs across platform teams, review designs, participate in (and help to resolve) technical discussions and drive high quality extensible engineering investments for large models.
• Strategize and create technical roadmaps for infrastructure security solutions for emerging technologies such as agents and LLMs.
• Work with product areas and influence stakeholders across the organization to build joint roadmaps and strong security narratives for relevant Google Cloud AI efforts.
• Be able to co-steer the architecture and technical direction of critical security products and infrastructure including Google’s Public and Private CAs, secure production identities and root keys, balancing the launch of new capabilities with the continuous, iterative improvement of existing infrastructure.

About the company

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.