Description :

Staff Cloud Engineer - Python with GCP cloud exp. preferred

Hyderabad (Preferred) /Bangalore /Pune - Hybrid

8+yrs experience

Product background with top institute education will be preferred

This is a senior individual contributor role focused on technical leadership, architecture, and building durable platform capabilities. It is not a DevOps or infrastructure operations role.

Our Team :

This role is for a Staff Software Engineer in the Platform Services team within the Core Platform Software organization.

We build foundational platform and compute systems that enable scalable self-service experiences, AI/ML workloads, and distributed analytics workloads in the cloud. These platforms form the backbone for user-facing products and internal engineering teams, enabling reliable provisioning, execution, and lifecycle management of complex compute environments.

Key focus areas include :

- Platform and compute control-plane services supporting large-scale distributed systems

- Self-service and product-led platform foundations

- AI/ML and analytics execution platforms running on cloud-native compute

- Core orchestration, lifecycle, and state-management services with strong API design

What You will Do :

- Serve as the technical authority for Google Cloud Platform

- Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures

- Lead system design for cloud platforms with strong availability, scalability, and fault tolerance

- Apply strong OOPS principles and clean coding practices in platform automation

- Design and evolve platform APIs and integration patterns

- Define governance, security baselines, and architectural guardrails

- Lead major cloud platform upgrades and environment evolution

- Drive architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers

- Influence multi -cloud strategy while maintaining deep GCP ownership

What We are Looking For :

- Strong hands -on expertise with Google Cloud Platform

- Strong system design skills covering scalability, reliability, and performance

- Strong coding and problem -solving skills with solid OOPS principles

- Strong understanding of distributed systems

- Experience applying design patterns in system or platform design

- Hands -on experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation

- Good understanding of at least one additional cloud platform (AWS or Azure)

Nice to Have :

- DevOps and CI/CD experience

- Experience in regulated or enterprise -governed environments

- Experience building internal cloud platforms or shared infrastructure services

Minimum Education :

- Bachelors degree with 8+ years of industry experience, or

- Advanced degree with 6+ years of experience