Senior Staff Engineer, Google Cloud Storage

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.
**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to partner with local clients and regional partners.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in a technical leadership role, guiding project direction and mentoring other engineers.
- Experience with software development in C++ or Python, and with large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
- Experience in managing a portfolio of concurrent engineering projects.
- Experience with storage technologies.

**About the job**: Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The team mission is to enable customer success for the most demanding AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and drive the technical roadmap for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) storage client portfolio. Work with customers and product leaders to understand AI/ML workloads, and plan the storage solution that provides the quality performance, and user experience, then recommend and implement that solution.
- Lead the architecture of integrated storage solutions. Own the analysis of performance bottlenecks.
- Act as the architectural bridge between the Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Lustre, and other core engineering. Align technical roadmaps and ensure a an engineering direction.
- Mentor executive engineers across the organization and elevate the technical bar for the entire storage group through design leadership.
- Work with stakeholders and key customers to understand the tests and requirements of the AI/ML users.

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.