Engineering Director, Spatial Flex

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA, USA seeks an Engineering Director for Spatial Flex to lead multi-site software engineering efforts, shaping cloud infrastructure and AI/ML initiatives. You will set long-term roadmaps, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to deliver scalable systems.

The role requires 15+ years leadership experience, a CS degree, and a proven ability to align resources with business goals. Expect a competitive package with equity, bonus, and comprehensive benefits.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Roadmap planning

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Engineering Director, Spatial Flex

Google

Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA

Director+

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
Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

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