Location: For this particular position, your base would be Google’s Hyderabad office.
Salary expectations: While there is no specific compensation revealed for this position, Google’s US headquarters have listed their salary range for the same role between $232,000 to $341,000 per annum, which is approximately between Rs 1.9 crore to 2.8 crore per year, making it one of the highest paying jobs in India that you could currently get.
3. Engineering Director for Search Discover
Discover is basically a part of Google Search that shows people content related to their interests, based on their web and app activity. According to Google, the main mission of Discover is to “help their users stay up to date on their topics of interest, while expanding their horizons by sparking their curiosity and inspiring them.” The job entails leading the efforts to improve reliability and performance while ensuring a common abstraction across clients to support rapid feature development. As the engineering director, you’ll also have to adapt and evolve the Discover experience to best serve the needs of users, while growing and developing your team to ensure quality work.
Qualifications required: Academically speaking, you’ll need a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience, which is 15 years of experience in engineering. You’ll also need skills to drive infrastructure engineering innovation at scale through automation and foster innovation by leading teams with a growth mindset of experimentation, learning, and iteration.
Location: Your base headquarters for this position will be in Bengaluru.
Salary expectations: According to Glassdoor, an engineering director can make the big bucks and take home a salary of Rs. 1 crore, depending on the company, the professional and their work experience.
4. Principal Engineer, Google Cloud VMware Engine
Technically speaking, Google Cloud VMware Engine is a service that lets you run the VMware platform in Google Cloud. It is essentially a fully managed service that allows enterprises to modernise their VMware-based environments without the need for significant changes to their existing applications, tools, or processes. The principal engineer will be responsible for driving the Google Cloud VMware Engine technical strategy, enabling highly performant, scalable infrastructure with fully redundant and dedicated networking, providing availability to meet the needs of demanding enterprise workloads. They will also be responsible for building innovative solutions to cut down cloud migration time significantly.
Qualifications required: A bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering is a must for this position, along with 15 years of experience in hardware and software design, data structures, and algorithms. Having the ability to work cross-functionally, partnering with groups such as Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, UX, and UI, brokering trade-offs with stakeholders and understanding their needs will work in your favour, while having an understanding of private and public cloud design considerations, global infrastructure, hypervisor technologies, networking, data storage, and security is an added advantage to your chances of getting this role.
Location: If you nail it, then you have the choice of working from either Pune, Bengaluru or Hyderabad.
Salary expectations: Depending on previous work experience, on average a VMware Software Principal Engineer’s salary in India is about Rs 74.1 lakhs for someone with an experience between 3 years to 18 years, according to AmbitionBox.
