# Principal Engineer, Gemini App Infrastructure

**Company**: Google DeepMind
**Location**: Mountain View, California, US
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $307,000 - $427,000 + bonus + equity + benefits
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15733006

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## Description

As the Principal Engineer, you will focus on architecting and building the flagship Gemini App infrastructure. You will serve as the technical anchor for the application and orchestration layer, owning the code quality, architectural decisions, and system design of new design systems and functionality.

Key responsibilities include:

- Architecting the Gemini app serving and orchestration layers, writing design docs, and defining interfaces to ensure the codebase is scalable, modular, and capable of supporting rapid innovation.

- Designing and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and experimentation platforms, building tooling that enables the wider engineering team to utilize A/B testing and feature flags to safely and quickly iterate.

- Driving application performance initiatives, debugging complex production issues, and advocating for code quality standards to ensure the infrastructure scales to our product needs.

- Acting as the strategic technical counterpart to product and design leadership, assessing feasibility of ambitious concepts, and proposing technical solutions that turn AI capabilities into reality.

- Mentoring staff and senior engineers, leading code reviews, and fostering a culture of technical accuracy, psychological safety, and user-centricity.

In order to set you up for success, we look for the following skills and experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 15 years of experience in software engineering, building and working with systems in the technology organization.

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

- Experience building large-scale serving infrastructure.

- Experience implementing observability, telemetry, and real-time monitoring strategies.

- Ability to design and refactor complex server-side architectures that have scaled, ideally at the >1 billion user scale.

- Ability to analyze data to identify bottlenecks and drive technical decisions regarding performance optimizations.

- Ability to unblock teams by solving the hardest technical problems, balancing technical debt with feature work, and driving predictable delivery through architectural clarity.

- Ability to drive technical consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders, translating technical constraints into clear options for leadership.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $307,000 - $427,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- 15 years of experience in software engineering
- Experience building large-scale serving infrastructure
- Experience implementing observability, telemetry, and real-time monitoring strategies
- Ability to design and refactor complex server-side architectures