Engineering Director, Spatial Flex

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in the Spatial Flexibility team to guide multi-site engineering efforts and shape multi-year roadmaps in a fast-growing AI/ML infrastructure environment.

You will mentor engineers, influence product direction, and collaborate with product teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems across Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of leadership experience.
• Experience in creating roadmaps balancing engineering resources and business goals.
• Experience as a technical leader in influencing multiple teams of engineers concurrently while partnering on development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical vision and strategy. Build a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term technology investments in a commercial, mission-critical environment.
• Partner closely and influence product management, product engineering, and other Google engineering teams to improve speed, quality, and ease.
• Build and lead an engineering team to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions.
• Unlock roadblocks at corporate level and cultivate collaboration with senior technologists across Google through leadership, creativity, intelligence, and presence.
• Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent. Attract great talent internally and externally.

Skills

Leadership

Roadmap development

Cross-team coordination

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

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.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of leadership experience.
• Experience in creating roadmaps balancing engineering resources and business goals.
• Experience as a technical leader in influencing multiple teams of engineers concurrently while partnering on development initiatives.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in building and running cloud infrastructure (private or public cloud) or large-scale service systems that are highly available and reliable.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, especially in areas such as Machine Learning, Inference, Performance Optimization, Capacity Management, and Inference Efficiency and Optimizations.
• Ability to learn AI specifics.

About The Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. 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 engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Google is undergoing the largest transformation of its technical infrastructure in history, driven by the explosive growth of our AI and Machine Learning (ML) platforms and the increasing size and scale of our data centers worldwide. This pivotal role is at the center of this change, responsible for successfully shaping the infrastructure's future to meet next-generation demands.

The Spatial Flexibility team builds the core systems that efficiently manage all of Google's compute, storage, and AI/ML resources globally. Our mission is to unlock the highest lifetime efficiency and business utility of these planet-scale resources by fundamentally transforming how global workload footprint is managed.

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

• Provide technical vision and strategy. Build a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term technology investments in a commercial, mission-critical environment.
• Partner closely and influence product management, product engineering, and other Google engineering teams to improve speed, quality, and ease.
• Build and lead an engineering team to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions.
• Unlock roadblocks at corporate level and cultivate collaboration with senior technologists across Google through leadership, creativity, intelligence, and presence.
• Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent. Attract great talent internally and externally.

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.