principal software engineering Principal Engineer tech_leadership · Posted May 13, 2026
$307,000 – $427,000
USD per year

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 careers

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides external developers a set of services that allow them to run any or all of their applications on Google's infrastructure. The benefits include performance, scale, reliability, ease-of-use, and a pay-as-you-go cost model.

Google 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.

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