Engineering Manager, Looker, Google Cloud

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google invites an Engineering Manager for Looker on Google Cloud to shape the backbone of Looker’s multi-cloud infrastructure from Hyderabad. You will oversee end-to-end lifecycle management, including provisioning with Terraform, and multi-region orchestration on GKE.

The role emphasizes automation, security, and scalable delivery platforms to support Looker’s data-driven business insights. You will partner with product, drive a technical roadmap, and build a high-performing team responsible

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
• 3 years in a technical leadership role with people management.
• Experience leading teams with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define mid-to-long-term vision for Looker Control Plane and roadmap for global scalability.
• Lead, manage, and inspire a software engineering team and conduct performance reviews.
• Tackle open-ended problems like billing, multi-region disaster recovery, and cloud migrations.

Skills

Technical leadership

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Job description

Engineering Manager, Looker, Google Cloud

Google

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Advanced

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Go, or JavaScript).
• 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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