Principal Engineer, Sovereign Cloud
Google · Sunnyvale, CA | Kirkland, WA | New York City, NY
About this role
Google is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in Sunnyvale, CA | Kirkland, WA | New York City, NY. The posting calls out experience with Docker, Distributed Systems, Data Analytics, GCP. Compensation is listed at $307,000–$427,000 per year.
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA | Kirkland, WA | New York City, NY
- Posted
- May 13, 2026
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Job description
from Google careersGoogle Sovereign Cloud enables enterprises to digitally transform their business with AI while being compliant to local regulations. Our customers can run modern apps at scale anywhere they choose to do so - public cloud, dedicated regions, and on distributed instances, even on completely air-gapped infrastructure as required.
As Principal Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for setting the technical direction, architecture, and drive adoption of AI driven compliance and engineering practices. This highly impactful role requires an exceptional blend of deep technical expertise in platform engineering, distributed systems, and AI, coupled with the ability to influence and drive adoption across multiple, globally distributed engineering teams. You will design and implement the next generation of Sovereign platforms that enable our data boundary, dedicated, and distributed cloud instances to easily meet the local security, compliance and regulatory needs, and operate high-assurance, regulated cloud services with maximum velocity and compliance.
Our Sovereign Cloud Portfolio provides the power of choice to our customers, and is well recognized by our customers for its flexibility, security, and compliance. You will be responsible for delivering a sovereign cloud platform, operating within the unique constraints of private, on-premise, and air-gapped environments and acting as the primary technical authority, driving strategy and architecture to impact the organization.