Engineering Manager, Looker, Google Cloud

Google Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Looker is seeking a senior engineering leader to own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of Looker’s multi‑cloud infrastructure. You will oversee provisioning with Terraform, multi‑region GKE orchestration, and billing systems across Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll lead a high‑impact engineering team, align with product management, and drive scalable, secure delivery platforms. This role requires strong decision making in ambiguous environments and a passion for cross‑functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects, including 2 years of people management.
• Experience leading engineering teams working with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience owning outcomes and influencing stakeholders in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the mid‑to‑long‑term vision for the Looker Control Plane, identifying future challenges in multi‑cloud orchestration and architecting a sustainable roadmap for global scalability.
• Build, manage, and inspire a team of software engineers, guiding their career development, conducting performance reviews, and fostering a high‑performing team culture.
• Lead the resolution of open‑ended problems where the solution is non‑obvious, such as designing next‑generation billing, multi‑region disaster recovery, and migrations between clouds.
• Exhibit leadership across multiple groups, navigating competing priorities, influencing system designs beyond your direct team, and partnering with product to ensure cohesive execution.
• Partner closely with product management and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate the product vision into a technical roadmap, prioritizing deliverables and ensuring successful execution of complex projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

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

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects, including 2 years of experience in people management, supervision, or team leadership.
• Experience leading engineering teams working with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience with building, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with cross‑functional stakeholders (like Product Management) to navigate high ambiguity and define long‑term technical strategy.

About the job

Join the Looker Control Plane team to architect the backbone of Looker’s global multi‑cloud infrastructure. We own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of Looker instances across GCP, handling everything from billing, core resource provisioning with Terraform to multi‑region GKE orchestration. You’ll work on high‑impact projects like consumption based billing, autoscaling, complex networking hardening, provisioning AI resources, handling lifecycle of instances and building scalable delivery platforms using One Platform APIs. Our mission is to ensure Looker’s evolution through reliable automation, enterprise‑grade security compliance, and innovative billing and lifecycle systems.

Looker is a unified platform that powers data experiences and delivers actionable business insights to employees at the point of decision. Looker integrates data into the daily workflows of users to allow organizations to extract value from data at web‑scale.

Responsibilities

• Define the mid‑to‑long‑term vision for the Looker Control Plane, identifying future challenges in multi‑cloud orchestration and architecting a sustainable roadmap for global scalability.
• Build, manage, and inspire a team of software engineers, guiding their career development, conducting performance reviews, and fostering a high‑performing team culture.
• Lead the resolution of open‑ended problems where the solution is non‑obvious, such as designing next‑generation billing, multi‑region disaster recovery, and migrations between clouds.
• Exhibit leadership across multiple groups, navigating competing priorities, influencing system designs beyond your direct team, and partnering with product to ensure cohesive execution.
• Partner closely with product management and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate the product vision into a technical roadmap, prioritizing deliverables and ensuring successful execution of complex projects.

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