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Posted date: May 08, 2025
Location: Kirkland, WA
Level: Director
Estimated salary: $298,500
Range: $248,000 - $349,000
Description
Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.Develop the long-term technical goals and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
Play a pivotal role in establishing and directing the organization in Kirkland. Your responsibilities include hiring, outlining the goal and mandate, defining and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs), guiding project execution, setting a long-term technical roadmap, and leading the team in implementing and delivering features to major clients with demanding workloads.
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.
Cloud Memorystore team's mission is to develop the most scalable, performant, and highly available cloud-based in-memory key-value data structure store. We build a managed cache-as-a-service solution for Google Cloud Platform users that is compatible with Valkey, Redis, and Memcached.
Our engineers solve technical problems spanning multiple areas in distributed systems, and our list of customers includes some planet-scale applications people use every day! Seeing great adoption since Memorystore for Redis Cluster GA launch in Fall 2023 and Memorystore for Valkey in 2025, we are seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to establish an engineering team.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript). 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. 10 years of experience in technical leadership and people management. Experience with Valkey, Redis, Memcached, or other caching or database systems. Ability to track record of product delivery, management leadership, team building, conflict resolution, and organizational skills.
Extended Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript). 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.Check out other jobs at Google.