Industry Principal Architect, Web3

As an Industry Principal Architect for Web3 at Google Cloud, you serve as the executive technical authority guiding Google Cloud's most strategic engagements across the Web3, digital assets, and decentralized technology ecosystem in APAC. You operate at the intersection of executive business strategy and deep distributed systems architecture, engaging with protocol foundations, institutional exchanges, digital asset custodians, financial institutions tokenizing real-world assets, and high-growth decentralized applications.

What you'll do

• Serve as the trusted technical advisor to C-level executives, protocol founders, and chief architects across strategic Web3 accounts and financial institutions in APAC
• Design, validate, and document scalable enterprise architectures that bridge decentralized protocols with cloud infrastructure, including high-throughput Remote Procedure Call (RPC) node clusters, validator operations, blockchain indexing pipelines, and confidential key management
• Author repeatable technical assets, reference implementations, and architectural whitepapers that scale Web3 technical capabilities across regional Customer Engineering and Partner teams
• Connect field requirements directly with Google Cloud product management and engineering, driving feature prioritization and roadmap development for products
• Guide customers on enterprise risk, security, and compliance architectures for virtual assets, aligning with regional regulatory frameworks such as HKMA and SFC requirements

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience in system architecture, distributed systems design, or cloud infrastructure in an enterprise customer-facing or technical leadership role
• 4 years of experience architecting, deploying, or operating production-grade Web3 systems, blockchain protocols such as EVM-compatible Layer 1/Layer 2, Solana, Move, or Cosmos, or smart contract ecosystems

Nice to have

• Experience with institutional digital asset infrastructure, including Multi-Party Computation (MPC), hardware security modules (Cloud HSM), transaction signing architectures, and confidential computing
• Experience designing and operating high-availability, low-latency blockchain node infrastructure, indexing layers, and validator networks at scale on Kubernetes or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Experience with Zero-Knowledge (ZK) infrastructure, rollup architectures, cross-chain messaging protocols, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)
• Practical experience with smart contract engineering, protocol security audits, and formal verification frameworks
• Knowledge of institutional Web3 use cases, including Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization, stablecoin rails, tokenized deposits, and custody architectures within regulated financial environments

About Google Cloud

Google Cloud accelerates organizations' ability to digitally transform their business with enterprise-grade infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.