In this context, Googlers does in fact mean Google employees. The context from the surrounding talk[1] talks about Google's use cases such as concurrency being

In this context, Googlers does in fact mean Google employees. The context from the surrounding talk[1] talks about Google's use cases such as concurrency being a key part of the language, etc. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrP_EmGNmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrP_EmGNmw (quote is at 20:30)