Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane

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.
• - 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.

Minimum qualifications:

Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum 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. Preferred qualifications: - 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 periods of growth or technical transformation. - Deep domain expertise in reliability engineering, automated disaster recovery, or cloud security and compliance within regulated environments. - Proven 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 a track record of partnering with product, operations, and executive stakeholders to drive platform strategy.