Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brain Corp is a San Diego, California, USA-based AI company creating transformative core technology for the robotics industry. The Principal Software Engineer, Cloud serves as the senior-most technical leader for the entire Cloud Platform team, responsible for defining the architectural direction, technical strategy, and engineering standards across all cloud systems supporting commercial robotics products.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the long-term technical vision, strategy, and architectural roadmap for the entire Cloud Platform
- Serve as the primary technical authority across all cloud engineering domains, including fleet management, robot-cloud communication, data platforms, developer infrastructure, and customer systems
- Drive cross-team technical alignment, ensuring consistency in architecture, tooling, reliability, security, and operational practices
- Establish engineering standards, design principles, and platform governance processes across Cloud Platform
- Lead major architectural initiatives involving scalability, resilience, observability, security, and developer productivity
- Partner with engineering directors, product leadership, and executives to align technical strategy with business priorities
- Identify and proactively resolve systemic architectural challenges, technical debt, and organizational bottlenecks
- Guide the design and implementation of complex distributed systems supporting robotics products at global scale
- Champion and actively drive adoption of GenAI-based tools and workflows across the Cloud Platform organization, embedding them into engineering practices to improve developer productivity, system design, debugging, and operational efficiency
- Act as a hands-on technical leader in evolving how the organization builds software, including evaluating, standardizing, and scaling GenAI-assisted engineering practices
- Mentor engineers, acting as the technical leadership backbone of the organization
- Lead architecture reviews, technical planning, and critical design decisions across multiple teams
- Serve as the highest technical escalation point for complex platform, reliability, and production issues
- Champion security-first architecture and operational excellence across all cloud systems
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to continuously evolve platform capabilities
- Drive a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning throughout the organization
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
- 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, and large-scale distributed systems
- Proven success leading technical strategy across multiple cloud engineering teams or large organizations
- Significant experience architecting and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Prior experience in Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent high-level technical leadership role
- Expert-level software engineering skills in Go and Python
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering at organizational scale
- Extensive knowledge of GCP services, including networking, storage, IAM, observability, security, and infrastructure automation
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and platform operations
- Strong expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies
- Proven ability to architect and scale highly available, secure, and resilient cloud systems
- Deep understanding of APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and messaging technologies such as Pub/Sub or Kafka
- Strong Linux systems expertise, including networking, security, systems operations, and troubleshooting
- Exceptional strategic thinking and technical decision-making abilities
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across organizational boundaries
- Strong mentoring capabilities for senior engineers and technical leaders
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams using GenAI tooling and workflows, fostering a culture of GenAI adoption across the software development lifecycle (e.g., coding, debugging, testing, documentation) to improve engineering velocity, quality, and scalability while maintaining strong engineering rigor
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
- Experience in robotics, IoT, autonomous systems, or large-scale edge-to-cloud ecosystems
- Experience leading cloud platforms supporting physical products or commercial robotics fleets
- Expertise in CI/CD systems, release engineering, and developer platform tooling
- Experience with Bazel build systems and large-scale build/test infrastructure optimization
- Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and regulated environments
- Experience building or leading platform organizations through periods of rapid scale
- Strong background in software lifecycle management, Agile methodologies, and engineering organizational design
Benefits
- A discretionary annual target bonus
- Stock options
- 401(k) plan with match (no waiting period and immediate vesting)
- Comprehensive suite of insurance benefits for employees (and their families) to include a variety of medical plan options (including an HSA with employer contribution), dental, vision, life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Legal/Identity support plans, pet insurance.
- Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care)
- Generous paid time off including flexible vacation, Paid Sick Leave, time off for volunteering in the community, 10 paid company holidays, and a winter company shutdown
- Daily on-site lunch available in the San Diego office
- On-campus gym including pool and tennis courts in the San Diego office
- Opportunities to connect with colleagues including monthly game nights, hikes, wellness challenges, and community events
- Internal continuous learning events
- Opportunities to share your own interests and hobbies with the Company
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