Responsibilities:

📍Technical Strategy and Vision: 📍Work with technology leaders across the company to develop a strategy and vision that drives engineering excellence. 📍Help ensure close alignment of the technical vision and strategy with the company's overall business objectives. 📍Assess emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage. 📍Technical Leadership: 📍Act as a technical thought leader and a mentor to engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning. 📍Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers, peer leaders, and architects to ensure high-quality technical solutions. 📍Excellence in Engineering: 📍Drive engineering excellence by working with product development and security to establish best practices, coding standards, and mechanisms to ensure consistently excellent quality, reliability, and security in all Gemini products and services. 📍Promote the adoption of modern development methodologies and tools to improve engineering productivity. 📍Architectural Oversight: 📍Review and provide architectural guidance for major engineering initiatives, ensuring that they align with the company's long-term technical goals. 📍Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to design scalable, maintainable, and secure systems. 📍Technical Due Diligence: 📍Conduct technical due diligence for potential acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic initiatives, providing assessments and recommendations to the CEO and executive team. 📍Cross-Functional Collaboration: 📍Collaborate closely with other departments, such as product management, sales, and marketing, to ensure that technical decisions align with market needs and customer expectations. 📍Serve as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. 📍Technical Evangelism: 📍Represent the company at technical conferences, industry events, and in interactions with partners and customers. 📍Promote the company's technical expertise and thought leadership in the industry. 📍Reporting and Communication: 📍Provide regular updates and reports to the CEO on the status of technical initiatives, challenges, and progress toward technical goals. 📍Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and understandable manner to non-technical stakeholders and the top management team. 📍Crisis Management and Resolution: 📍Play a critical role in managing and resolving major technical incidents and crises, providing leadership and expertise to minimize downtime and impact. 📍Help evaluate and choose between alternative technical strategies, implementation methodologies and engineering practices.

Qualifications:

📍Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. 📍Extensive experience (15+ years) in software development at a leading software company with a strong background in software architecture and design. 📍Proficiency in programming and development technologies. 📍Excellent communication skills. 📍A strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and a technical visionary who can guide the company's technical direction and inspire engineering teams to achieve excellence. 📍Proven track record of technical leadership and a deep understanding of the engineering process, tools and technologies for building internet scale geo-distributed software services. 📍Additionally, the Distinguished Engineer should foster collaboration, innovation, and a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering organization.