Director, Engineering, Compute Infrastructure, Google Distributed Cloud

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disable

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a cloud-centric platform enabling enterprises to run modern apps anywhere at scale. As Director of Engineering for Compute Infrastructure in GDC Services, you will lead the core compute infrastructure powering Google’s sovereign and on-prem offerings.

This leadership role owns APIs, CLI, UI, lifecycle and multi-tenancy across edge and airgapped topologies. You will define a multi-year technical vision, partner with PM, SRE, hardware, security, and DeepMind/Cloud

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience as a software engineering leader in infrastructure areas.
• 10 years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders (managers and principal/staff engineers).
• Experience with cross-functional senior stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Unite modern cloud native applications with next-generation virtualization on a single, declarative control plane.
• Partner with GDC AI, Vertex AI, and DeepMind teams to optimize bare metal and virtualized compute substrates for AI workloads.
• Design systems for environments where central public cloud SREs cannot manually intervene.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Cross-functional stakeholder mgmt

Leading multiple engineering teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, 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

Note: 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; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience as a software engineering leader in infrastructure areas.
• 10 years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders (managers and principal/staff engineers).
• Experience with cross-functional senior stakeholder management.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience with cloud services in the areas of Compute, Virtual Machines, Storage, or Networking.
• Proven track record of designing and shipping successful product experiences for web and mobile interfaces.
• Proven track records of designing, shipping, and operating packaged, edge, hybrid cloud, or airgapped/disconnected infrastructure for enterprise or highly regulated public-sector customers (e.g., FedRAMP, Sovereign Data Centers).
• Proven track record optimizing compute, Virtual Machines for AI/ML workloads (GPU/accelerator scheduling, SR-IOV, NUMA topology, confidential computing).
• Active technical influence and community leadership within open source ecosystems.

About The Job

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a cloud-centric platform that enables enterprises to run modern apps anywhere consistently at scale. We offer a wide spectrum of solutions from managed software on your own hardware, fully managed hardware and AI-led software services, to completely air-gapped sovereign offerings.

As Director of Engineering for Compute Infrastructure in GDC Services, you will lead a foundational engineering organization responsible for the core compute infrastructure that power Google Distributed Cloud.

This role gives you direct ownership of:

• The bedrock for sovereign AI: Your compute stack provides the high performance, confidential, and resilient substrate upon which Google’s flagship services, including on-prem Gemini, Vertex AI, autonomous agentic runtimes, are built, scheduled, and executed at scale.
• A flagship customer facing surface: Your organization owns the end to end compute infrastructure surface (APIs, CLI, UI, workload lifecycle, and multi-tenancy) that sovereign customers interact with daily to operate their most mission critical VM fleets.

As the Director of Engineering for Compute Infrastructure in Google Distributed Cloud, you will define the multi year technical vision and product execution roadmap across connected, edge, and fully disconnected airgapped topologies. Partnering with Product Management, SRE, Systems/Hardware Engineering, Security, and Google DeepMind/Cloud AI, you will establish a robust and resilient compute foundation engineered for the highest security boundaries in the world (FedRAMP, IL5, ITAR, Sovereign Controls).

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.

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Unite modern cloud native applications with next-generation virtualization on a single, declarative control plane. Solve one of the greatest infrastructure transitions in enterprise IT, giving customers a modern alternative to legacy virtualization stacks without requiring them to rewrite decades of enterprise VM applications.
• Partner closely with GDC AI, Vertex AI, and DeepMind teams to optimize bare metal and virtualized compute substrates for demanding AI inference and agentic workflows. Drive hardware and GPU utilization, NUMA aware scheduling, SR-IOV, GPU passthrough, and confidential computing to unlock maximum price-performance and zero-trust security.
• Design systems for environments where central public cloud SREs cannot manually intervene.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .