Director, Software Engineering, Google Cloud Engine

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of progressive experience in software engineering, with 5 years of software engineering leadership experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in software development and engineering, with a focus on distributed systems, scalability, and performance.
• Experience with cloud-based workloads, including databases (SQL Server, Redis), container platforms (OpenShift), and other enterprise applications.
• Experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, including experience with global teams.
• Deep understanding of cloud migration strategies and processes, including experience with migrating complex workloads.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product management, sales, and customer support.

About the job

The GCE team's mission is to help customers efficiently migrate and manage their diverse workloads on Google Cloud, encompassing databases like mySQL, SQL Server and Redis, container platforms like OpenShift, and more. The team focuses on building services that facilitate seamless migration to the cloud and enable integration with Google's native and external services, offering customers the scalability and flexibility of the cloud.

As the Director of Google Cloud Engine (GCE), you will lead the development and operation of products, services, and tooling that facilitate workload assessment, migration, observability, code rewrite, refactor, and tooling to help seamless migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The GCE engineering team is globally distributed, with each location having a distinct and comprehensive charter.

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 $278,000-$399,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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 benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Go-To-Market leaders to shape the multi-year strategy for our migrate, modernize, and workload efforts.
• Influence the product and team's direction by collaborating with peer managers within GCE, Google teams, and external partners.
• Lead the team in maintaining and enhancing product, engineering, operational, and support excellence to ensure reliable and high-performance operations.
• Build and develop a solid team of tech leads and engineers to execute the multi-year roadmap.
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders across GCP to promote technical excellence, innovation, and best practices.