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Inside google there is a web site with job listings. You email the manager and set up a meeting to talk about the job. If the manager chooses you, you make a plan to transition. You are expected to stay in a role for at least 12-18 months. After that, people are understanding if you request a move.
Google is unusually hostile to the idea that you would work from a different office than your team. If you want to do that, you need a director to fight with HR on your behalf.
Every few years, Google gets focused on something. In 2011 it was "mobile only", the idea that we should only make phone apps and put the web apps in maintenance mode. In 2014 it was Google+, the idea that all of google was a social network. In 2017 it was "google cloud", the idea that we could compete with AWS. These plans always end in failure. During a period of management obsession with these ideas, hiring focuses on them. Until google gives up on GCP, the headcount available for non-GCP will be tiny. When GCP finally fails, every person in GCP will be trying to get a non-GCP role. The competition will be fierce.
If you join GCP, have a plan to move to something profitable ASAP. Start 20%ing on a search or ads team in the first six months, so that someone outside GCP knows your work when you hit 12 months and can transfer.
Is Google still lumping GCP and Google Enterprise into "cloud", so that the profitable enterprise version of gmail and drive cover the losses from GCP? They did this when I worked there...
Remember when Vic G. got up at every TGIF and explained how Google+ had exponential user growth? And how the reason was that Youtube comments counted as Google+ use?
Remember when Youtube had a celebration for achieving profitability? And it turned out to be profitable only if the cost of network transit was assumed to be zero, "because we need that anyway for search and ads"?
I worked at goggle a long time. I have many friends there, and I hope they succeed. But we need to be realistic. The people telling you GCP will be profitable have a large incentive to make GCP look successful. Take their marketing with a large grain of salt.