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Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane

Google· Google Cloud, GCE Control Plane
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Kirkland, WA, USA$262k - $364kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Engineering Manager responsible for leading multiple teams within the Google Compute Engine (GCE) Control Plane, driving reliability, scale, and multi-site collaboration for the control plane infrastructure and AI workload deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Scale high-performing engineering teams to manage the foundational infrastructure of the GCE Control Plane Platform.
  • Build a "Reliable by Design" environment, establishing GCE as the industry 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 the technical goal and lead initiatives to enhance platform security and automate continuous compliance.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:C++Large-scale infrastructureTechnical leadershipPeople management

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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