Development Manager, Agent Registry

Google; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 216,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Waterloo, ON seeks a Development Manager for the Agent Registry to lead a high-performing software team building the control plane for Google Cloud, Workspace, and Gemini agents. You’ll align product goals, drive architecture, and mentor engineers across sites.

The role emphasizes owning outcomes, solving complex problems, and influencing cross-functional partners while shaping the technical roadmap for scalable agent infrastructure in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of software developers, modeling technical excellence and empowering individuals to foster career and leadership growth.
• Drive the technical strategy, system architecture, and core design principles for the Agent Registry control plane while establishing development best practices for performance and reliability.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and cross-functional leaders to define product goals, shape the strategic roadmap, and align short-term delivery with long-term outlook.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal cross-site teams and external partners to drive organizational alignment.
• Manage project execution, set key milestones, and cultivate a positive team culture focused on continuous learning, psychological safety, and impactful delivery.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

People management

Compute/storage hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Development Manager, Agent Registry

Google

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. This posting is for an existing vacancy. Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing complex development initiatives at scale and leading high-impact, organization-wide technical efforts.
• Experience with skip-level management and setting up multi-tiered software development teams for success.
• Experience managing frontend developers and collaborating with user experience designers to deliver intuitive, customer-facing platforms.
• Experience building, scaling, and mentoring high-performing development teams with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
• Understanding of cloud services, system architectures, and large-scale cluster orchestration or production containerization systems.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Developer goes way beyond just Search. Software Development Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of software developers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure software developers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Development Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Software Development teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software developers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

The Agent Registry team builds the control plane for Google Cloud, Workspace, and Gemini Agent perimeters. Operating as a source of truth, this system discovers, governs, and connects AI Agent, Agent Skill, and Model Context Protocol Server. We build the connective tissue that allows autonomous agents to discover each other, negotiate tasks, and securely execute enterprise data tools.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. 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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $216000 - $221000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of software developers, modeling technical excellence and empowering individuals to foster career and leadership growth.
• Drive the technical strategy, system architecture, and core design principles for the Agent Registry control plane while establishing development best practices for performance and reliability.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and cross-functional leaders to define product goals, shape the strategic roadmap, and align short-term delivery with long-term outlook.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal cross-site teams and external partners to drive organizational alignment.
• Manage project execution, set key milestones, and cultivate a positive team culture focused on continuous learning, psychological safety, and impactful delivery.

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