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Posted date: Dec 01, 2025
Location: Kirkland, WA
Level: Director
Estimated salary: $298,500
Range: $248,000 - $349,000
Description
Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.Contribute with scope across several project areas in Looker. A focus on improving reliability and operational excellence (debuggability, monitoring, and so on). Lead some projects and contribute to our codebase, while also growing and influencing the Looker engineering team as a whole. Contribute to strategic direction for the organization, working closely with Product Manager on defining product direction.
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
This position is for a technical lead role in Looker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP's) Business Intelligence (BI) offering. Looker provides semantic modeling, visualizations and dashboarding, the ability to embed these into standalone applications, and other key BI capabilities and is a keystone product in GCP's Data Analytic's portfolio. Looker has several opportunities and long-term challenges to overcome in the next few years and needs experienced leaders.
In this role, you will be helping Looker improve it's reliability and operational excellence.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 programming in C++. 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products. Experience with reliability and business intelligence.Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms. 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects. Experience with data warehousing and databases.
Extended Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience programming in C++. 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products. Experience with reliability and business intelligence.Check out other jobs at Google.