Engineering Director, Spatial Flex

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 15 years of leadership experience
• Experience in creating roadmaps balancing engineering resources and business goals
• Experience as a technical leader in influencing multiple teams of engineers concurrently while partnering on development initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building and running cloud infrastructure (private or public cloud) or large-scale service systems that are highly available and reliable
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, especially in areas such as Machine Learning, Inference, Performance Optimization, Capacity Management, and Inference Efficiency and Optimizations
• Ability to learn AI specifics

About The Job

Software Engineering Managers at Google have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager, you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team.

Teams work across the company in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, and user interface design. This role is part of Google's transformation of its technical infrastructure, driven by the growth of AI and Machine Learning platforms.

The Spatial Flexibility team builds the core systems that efficiently manage all of Google's compute, storage, and AI/ML resources globally. The mission is to unlock the highest lifetime efficiency and business utility of these planet-scale resources by fundamentally transforming how global workload footprint is managed. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry, delivering enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology.

Pay

US: $307,000 - $427,000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Provide technical vision and strategy
• Build a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term technology investments in a commercial, mission-critical environment
• Partner closely and influence product management, product engineering, and other Google engineering teams to improve speed, quality, and ease
• Build and lead an engineering team to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions
• Unlock roadblocks at corporate level and cultivate collaboration with senior technologists across Google through leadership, creativity, intelligence, and presence
• Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent
• Attract great talent internally and externally