Software Engineering Manager, Denial of Service Security SRE

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

8d•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures Google Cloud’s internally critical and externally visible services have reliability and uptime appropriate to customer needs, while enabling rapid improvement and monitoring system capacity and performance. The work focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating toil through automation. In this role, you will manage a distributed engineering team, oversee real-time incident response, and lead DoSSec’s evolution from reactive mitigation to proactive threat intelligence, adversary research, and automated disruption. You will work on the scale and complexity of Google Cloud, contributing expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. The organization values curiosity, collaboration, openness, self-direction, meaningful work, and a supportive, blame-free environment. The Technical Infrastructure team builds and maintains the infrastructure behind Google products, including data centers and Google platforms, and operates the networks that support a fast, reliable user experience. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US compensation is $207,000–$300,000, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of technical experience in network protocols (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, HTTP/S), routing, load balancing, or distributed traffic-serving architectures.
3 years of experience managing technical teams.
3 years of experience managing operational incident response and participating in or supervising on-call rotations.
Experience programming in C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
5 years of engineering management experience, with a proven track record of managing executive individual contributors or managing other managers.
Experience shifting operational engineering teams from reactive, interrupt-driven workflows to automated, intelligence-driven defense models.
Demonstrated executive presence and ability to communicate complex, high-stakes security incidents calmly and decisively to engineering VPs, Directors, and enterprise Cloud customers.
Extensive background in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) incident response, malware analysis/reverse engineering, botnet tracking, WAF administration, or threat intelligence pipelines.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing, distributed team of Site Reliability Engineers and security engineers; manage career development, performance evaluations, and technical mentorship while supporting team expansion under new initiatives.
Drive the workstreams’ technical roadmap, overseeing development of automated threat intelligence and tracking systems to proactively mitigate risks.
Own the team’s operational health and interrupt budgets; lead the transition to and execution of an on-call rotation and actively drive escalation workflows.
Partner with infrastructure providers and key customer stakeholders to unify protections across ecosystems and support productized offerings.
Guide publication of internal threat research and collaborate with internal intelligence partners and external communities to establish Google as an industry leader in Denial of Service defense.