Engineering Manager, Google Distributed Cloud, Unified Control Plane

This role is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

Compensation:

$207,000-$300,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, lead, manage, and grow a dedicated team of high-performing Software Engineers (SWEs).
• Drive the technical goal, execution, and delivery of the GDC UCP pillars, starting with the API Gateway, Controller Software Development Kits (SDK), Lifecycle Management (LCM) integrations, and State Management store.
• Work closely with 70+ Operator Component (OC) owners to facilitate the brownfield migration from raw Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) to the UCP architecture.
• Guide architectural decisions, including technical requirement definitions, system design, testing, and progressive rollout strategies for the control plane.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts with GCP teams, internal infrastructure teams, and GDC stakeholders to integrate proven Google technologies into the air-gapped GDC environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with 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 or team leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.