Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Zürich, Switzerland.Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience in software engineering, with 8 years in a technical engineering role.
Experience in data protection and privacy domains.
Experience in AI and machine learning, with a focus on developing, protecting, and deploying AI-powered agent platforms.
Experience with protecting systems. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
Experience motivating others to act by creating a shared sense of vision or purpose, creating a compelling vision for the future, communicating clearly, and employing a collaborative leadership approach.
Experience leading complex cross-functional engineering projects and indirectly leading a distributed team of engineers across organizations and teams.
Ability to provide clarity and alignment across the organization on goals, outcomes and timelines, and encourage engineering excellence, mentoring others to uphold it. About The Job As a Principal Engineer for the Data Protection team, you will drive technical excellence for a broad set of Google critical systems and enable the data protection of Google products. This includes enabling secure AI development by introducing data protection controls that don’t impede velocity as well as agentic approaches to these challenges (e.g., data labeling, policy enforcement, data transformation). They will help design a multi-year engineering roadmap, balancing short- and long-term goals and investments, to ensure that Google is well-positioned to continue to protect users while the overall ecosystem continues to grow in complexity and be disrupted by AI. In this role, you will navigate a surge in hi...