Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane

Google•Kirkland, WA

19h•$262,000 - $364,000

About The Position

Lead engineering teams responsible for the foundational infrastructure of the Google Compute Engine (GCE) Control Plane Platform. The role combines technical leadership and people management, including managing engineers across multiple teams and locations, overseeing large-scale projects across international sites, contributing to product strategy, and developing the team. The position focuses on shifting to cellular architectures and multi-dimensional sharding to contain deployment blast radius and prevent multi-regional failures. It also involves moving telemetry toward customer-perceived sensitivity, applying AI-driven anomaly detection and automated rollbacks, modernizing resource conservation with dynamic throttling and adaptive quotas for AI workloads, and establishing automated validation pipelines to ensure data stores meet strict RPO/RTO objectives and remain resilient. The manager will scale high-performing teams and build a “Reliable by Design” environment for GCE, fostering an engineering culture focused on blast-radius containment, hitless maintenance, and dynamic capacity assurance. The role also guides automated disaster recovery for a rapidly scaling AI fleet and leads initiatives to enhance platform security and automate continuous compliance. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The listed U.S. salary range is $262,000–$364,000, plus a 25% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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 growth or technical transformation.
Deep domain expertise in reliability engineering, automated disaster recovery, or cloud security and compliance within regulated environments.
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 experience partnering with product, operations, and executive stakeholders to drive platform strategy.

Responsibilities

Scale high-performing engineering teams responsible for the foundational infrastructure of the GCE Control Plane Platform.
Build a “Reliable by Design” environment and establish GCE as a 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 technical goals and lead initiatives to enhance platform security and automate continuous compliance.
Lead the shift to cellular architectures and multi-dimensional sharding to contain deployment blast radius and prevent multi-regional failures.
Shift telemetry toward customer-perceived sensitivity, using AI-driven anomaly detection and automated rollbacks to neutralize failures early.
Modernize resource conservation by transitioning to dynamic throttling and adaptive quotas for AI workloads.
Establish continuous, automated validation pipelines to ensure data stores meet strict RPO/RTO objectives and maintain resiliency.
Manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, oversee large-scale projects across international sites, contribute to product strategy, and develop the team.