Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane

Google LLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager for the GCE Control Plane to lead multiple teams responsible for large-scale infrastructure and backend services.

You will mentor engineers, align product strategy with platform reliability, and drive disaster recovery, security and compliance initiatives. The role requires deep C++ expertise, 8+ years coding and 5+ years in leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 7 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Scale high-performing engineering teams across multiple sites.
• Define platform goals and drive reliability initiatives for the GCE Control Plane.
• Lead automated disaster recovery, and security/compliance programs for the stack.
• Partner with product, operations, and executive stakeholders to align roadmaps.
• Oversee project budgets and delivery of large-scale backend projects.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

C++

Large-scale infra

Compute/storage hardware experience

Job description

Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane

corporate_fare Google place Kirkland, WA, USA

X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. 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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience managing managers and scaling large, high-performing engineering organizations through periods of growth or technical transformation.
• Deep domain expertise in reliability engineering, automated disaster recovery, or cloud security and compliance within regulated environments.
• Proven ability to demonstrate staff-level technical judgment and decision-making for large-scale back-end systems and complex platform architectures.
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering with product, operations, and executive stakeholders to drive platform strategy.

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.

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.

• Scale high-performing engineering teams to manage the foundational infrastructure of the GCE Control Plane Platform.
• Build a "Reliable by Design" environment, establishing GCE as the industry gold standard for resiliency against hyper-accelerated AI workloads.
• Foster an engineering culture focused on blast radius containment, hitless maintenance, and dynamic capacity assurance.
• Guide multi-dimensional sharding and automated disaster recovery for a rapidly scaling AI fleet.
• Define the technical goal and lead initiatives to enhance platform security and automate continuous compliance.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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