Engineering Manager, Agentic Policies Platform

Google Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Agentic Policies Platform in San Francisco. You will lead a team of software engineers, drive technical strategy, and oversee large-scale infrastructure and access control policy deployment across multiple sites.

You will mentor engineers, own project goals, collaborate with Product and Security leaders, and shape the evolution of IAM policies across GCP in an AI-first, scalable environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
• 3 years of experience in a people management role managing software engineering reports.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and strengthen a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee a platform that manages billions of security policies.
• Drive technical strategy and resolve architectural challenges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to define and execute long-term goals.
• Ensure scalable, secure access control infrastructure across cloud deployments.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Decision making

Stakeholder influence

Software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud APIs

Identity and security concepts

Job description

Engineering Manager, Agentic Policies Platform

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

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• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in software development.
  
• 5 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
• 3 years of experience in a people management role managing software engineering reports.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• Experience with Generative AI and building Generative AI agents.
• Experience with Cloud APIs.
• Familiarity with identity, authentication or security.

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.

This team is responsible for IAM Policies across GCP, empowering administrators to manage cloud deployments at scale in an innovative, AI agent first world.

As a Manager, you will lead, grow, and strengthen a highly performant team owning a platform that manages billions of security policies. You will manage product excellence and customer obsession to deliver highly secure, scalable, and reliable access control infrastructure enforcing dynamic policies for both human and autonomous agent identities. Partnering closely with other Cloud leaders, you will drive technical strategy and resolve complex architectural challenges to ensure GCP services have simple, reliable ways to integrate access control.

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.

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.

This team is responsible for IAM Policies across GCP, empowering administrators to manage cloud deployments at scale in an innovative, AI agent first world. As a Manager, you will lead, grow, and strengthen a highly performant team owning a platform that manages billions of security policies. You will manage product excellence and customer obsession to deliver highly secure, scalable, and reliable access control infrastructure enforcing dynamic policies for both human and autonomous agent identities. Partnering closely with other Cloud leaders, you will drive technical strategy and resolve complex architectural challenges to ensure GCP services have simple, reliable ways to integrate access control.

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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Inspire, lead, and develop a high‑performing team of software engineers, actively coaching them to grow their skills and advance their careers.
• Cultivate deep technical expertise in building and operating hyper‑reliable GCP infrastructure, ensuring always‑correct, intuitive, and fast access control enforcement.
• Drive complex technical projects and provide technical oversight across the entire lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, implementation, testing, and support.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional leaders (Product Managers, Engineering Leads, TPMs) to define, align, and execute a unified, long‑term technical goal and strategy.
• Foster an open and collaborative environment that promotes teamwork, different perspectives, and psychological safety.

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