Software Engineer Manager, GCP Identity Infrastructure (Sunnyvale)

Software Engineer Manager, GCP Identity Infrastructure

Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Compensation: US: $207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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.
• Experience in running a low latency and high availability, large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with Cloud engineering.
• Experience with Identity and Authentication.

About the job

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 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 and more. 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.

As part of this team, you will build the reliable, scalable identity infrastructure that secures Google Cloud. At the core is Cloud Gaia, which powers service accounts, workload identity, and federation at millions of queries per second while meeting strict availability and compliance standards. You will lead critical, high‑traffic data‑plane services and develop a team of highly talented engineers. In this role, you will oversee the secure life‑cycle of authentication credentials, ensuring safe, reliable, and easily adoptable identity verification for all users and workloads across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Establish the strategy for the next‑gen authentication stack for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Identity.
• Enable agentic identity through credentials exchange for agents.
• Develop and grow talent through hiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers.
• Drive technical projects and provide technical leadership to inspire the team to innovate, design, and implement advanced capabilities for identity compliance and sovereignty.
• Collaborate across all of Technical Infrastructure and GCP with product managers, technical program managers, and other software engineering managers to deliver on product goals.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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