Principal Engineer, Search Policy and Data Protection

Applications will be accepted through February 8, 2022.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of experience in software development in one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, Python, etc.).

• Experience working with distributed computing, infrastructure design, and software architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience providing technical leadership across a large organization.
• Experience with cross-organization collaboration and influencing other teams' directions and roadmaps.
• Knowledge of Search serving infrastructure, Search logs, and logging frameworks.
• Understanding of Data Protection and Risk policies for user data, experiment design, and statistical analysis.
• Desire to go work technically and solve challenging engineering problems.
• Ability to speak and written in English fluently.

About the job

Centralized policy ownership is a transformative solution for all of these challenges by establishing consistent patterns, expectations, and results, and this model has been proven successful elsewhere.

As a Principal Engineer for Search Policy and Data Protection, you will be creating and driving ways for Search to think about what user data is, what we can do with it, and what we can’t. Customers include data-intensive teams such as Web Ranking, Google Assistant, and Discover. You will be on the critical path for hitting the organization-wide goals to comply with updated security policies and defining systems that scale to accommodate frequent policy updates.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Define balanced technical strategies and ensure cross-group alignment.
• Improve clarity and timeliness of technical decision-making.
• Develop and maintain design principles and architectural and engineering process documentation.
• Provide technical feedback, guidance, and decisions as needed.
• Support the development of executive technical leaders.

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.