Principal Engineer – Cloud Observability

About the role

Google Cloud is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for Cloud Observability, ensuring the platform provides comprehensive telemetry across all services. This senior role will shape the future of logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting for customers worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute the overall technical roadmap for Cloud Observability, including Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, and Trace.
• Drive an architectural refresh of the internal time‑series database (Monarch) to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Partner with senior leaders in Reliability Infrastructure and related teams to transform Google’s internal monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams such as Gemini Cloud Assist, Titan, and App Hub to integrate observability data into user journeys.
• Mentor and grow technical leads and software engineers within the Observability team.

Required profile

• 15+ years of experience in observability, distributed systems, and reliability engineering.
• Proven track record leading large, fast‑paced engineering teams at an executive level in multinational organizations.
• Extensive experience defining system and process requirements for complex platforms.

Required skills

• Deep expertise in time‑series databases and observability tooling.
• Strong background in distributed systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting technologies.