Cloud DNS Engineering Manager — Lead Scalable, Reliable Systems

Google LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC seeks an Software Engineering Manager for Cloud DNS Authoritative Name Serving in New York. You will lead a multi-team effort to design, build, and operate scalable DNS services and distributed systems, while mentoring engineers and delivering high availability across global deployments.

You will manage product strategy, partner relationships, and roadmap execution, guiding engineers through complex problems and ensuring quality execution across Compute, GKE, and security domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
• Experience with networking technologies including Software Defined Networks, DNS, Software Load Balancers, Network Authentication, and Identity Management.
• Experience in a technical leadership role, managing a team of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Guide the authoritative DNS stack spanning public and private serving (Zonodine, GCE DNS), health checking, global, regional, and zonal state push (AuthV, GRAMP), and DNS APIs and CLHs.
• Deliver predictably at a Tier-0 bar with partner teams by preempting blockers, managing high-priority and re-staffing decisions across the partner Resolver team, and maintaining high reliability, availability, and on-duty health.
• Manage a team of nine engineers, growing mid-level talent into senior leads while partnering closely with staff technical leads on role definition, system design, and quality execution.
• Own partner relationships and roadmaps by building strong ties across Compute, GKE, Serverless, Agent Cloud, Service Networking, and Security, translating early partner needs into clear, mutually committed roadmaps.
• Advocate for agentic and AI-first workflow tools to empower engineers to solve larger, complex problems independently.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

DNS

Networking

Cloud technologies

Team management

Scalability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GKE

GCE DNS

SDN

Job description

Google LLC seeks an Software Engineering Manager for Cloud DNS Authoritative Name Serving in New York. You will lead a multi-team effort to design, build, and operate scalable DNS services and distributed systems, while mentoring engineers and delivering high availability across global deployments.

You will manage product strategy, partner relationships, and roadmap execution, guiding engineers through complex problems and ensuring quality execution across Compute, GKE, and security domains.