Senior Engineering Manager, Google Distributed Cloud

2 Weeks ago • 8-13 Years • Full Stack Development • Backend Development • DevOps • $248,000 PA - $349,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Google Distributed Cloud, you'll lead the NodeOS team, developing the operating system for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) in air-gapped and connected environments. This involves building and maintaining a Linux-based OS for enterprise workloads, ensuring scale, security, compliance, and performance. You'll manage a team of engineers, including kernel developers, and collaborate with external vendors to support GDC customers. The role requires extensive experience in software development, technical leadership, and people management. You will manage a large product budget and oversee international project deployments. Google Distributed Cloud offers both air-gapped and connected solutions, providing Google Cloud services on-premises.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 5+ years technical leadership
  • 5+ years people management
  • Manage NodeOS team
  • Build and maintain OS
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS
  • 5+ years building large-scale infrastructure
  • 5+ years Open Source Linux/Kernel experience
  • 5+ years in a matrixed organization
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision, team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
  • 5 years of experience in open source Linux, Kernel.
  • 5 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.

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 Distributed Cloud air-gapped is a new converged hardware/software solution for customers who want the benefits of Google Cloud on premises in disconnected environments. It consists of a full hardware stack (rack, network switches, compute servers, storage appliances, etc.) and software stack (operating system, Anthos, Kubernetes, KVM/QEMU, etc.). Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDCH) offers a number of first-party Google Cloud services (managed and supported by Google) including Virtual Machines (VMs), Kubernetes Clusters, AI/ML services, databases, and more.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Manage the NodeOS team, which develops the operating system for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) in both air-gapped and connected environments.
  • Build and maintain an OS built on Open Source Linux that delivers the necessary scale, security, compliance, and performance for enterprise workloads.
  • Manages the operating system that runs all services and works with external vendors to support GDC customers.
  • Lead a team of engineers including kernel developers.

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