Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management
About The Position
The Google Cloud Platform Identity and Access Management team provides security, access control, and built-in intelligence to enterprise customers globally. The team’s services are critical and heavily used by organizations adopting Google Cloud. The Engineering Manager will lead the Capsium Infrastructure team and own the global serving platform that provides reliable, policy-based access-control checks across regions worldwide. The platform supports services including Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine, and BigQuery. The team builds high-capacity storage systems, group membership services, agentic authorization, and policy evaluation engines that handle hundreds of millions of queries per second with low latency and high availability. The role leads and develops engineering teams, provides technical thought leadership on scaling platforms for an agentic access landscape, and partners with Site Reliability Engineering and technical leaders across Google Cloud. The manager will navigate ambiguity and complex architectural challenges while balancing customer needs, business priorities, and product quality to deliver intuitive, secure infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
- 2 years of experience in a people management role managing direct reports.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience building Generative AI Agents.
- Experience with Cloud Identity and Access Management.
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and support the career advancement of a high-performing engineering team while fostering a collaborative culture.
- Define and execute a multi-year technical roadmap for Google Cloud Platform authorization infrastructure in alignment with broader Google Cloud reliability and security goals.
- Drive complex projects through the entire software lifecycle, balancing delivery goals with operational health and high quality.
- Provide technical direction and system design oversight for distributed, fault-tolerant infrastructure built for 99.999% availability.
- Maintain accountability for service-level objectives (SLOs), production resilience, security hygiene, and proactive capacity planning.
- Build strong partnerships across GCP teams to integrate platform capabilities and drive cross-organizational technical alignment.
Benefits
- 20% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
