Senior Director, Platform Operations, GDC

Senior Director, Platform Operations, GDC

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA, USA;
Kirkland, WA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 20 years of experience in architecting system design, algorithms, data structures, analysis, and software design.

• 15 years of experience with site reliability engineering practices, including incident response, monitoring, service-level objectives, and change management.

• Experience with predictable software installation and upgrades in air-gapped environments.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• Experience leading software product development organizations that have shipped successful products to enterprise customers.

• Experience in production operations for isolated systems and expertise in distributed cloud/on-premise.

• Experience building or operating large-scale infrastructure platforms and distributed systems, with technical knowledge of public/private cloud, GPUs, virtualization, and containerization.

• Ability to resolve deep systemic operational problems.

About The Job

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a cloud-centric platform that enables enterprises to run modern apps anywhere consistently  offer a wide spectrum of solutions from managed software on your own hardware, fully managed hardware and AI‑led software services, to completely air‑gapped sovereign offerings. GDC is a fully managed product portfolio that brings Google Cloud’s infrastructure and services closer to where customer data is being generated and consumed, empowering customers to run AI‑led services in their own (or a partner) data center, or at the edge, alongside enterprise applications to support mission‑critical use cases such as computer vision and Google AI edge inferencing.

Over time, we believe this team will define new products and services as part of the GDC portfolio that enable us to build large businesses by helping governments use AI for citizen services, saving manufacturers time and money by using video for visual inspections on factory floors, and enabling retailers to remove in‑store hardware and create dynamic, modern applications. As the Senior Director, you will establish and maintain the core reliability and production standards for GDC.

In this role, you will build and operate the production environment for GDC. You will lead the dedicated Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within GDC, be responsible for the operational excellence and technical direction of the distributed full‑stack cloud product, and lead an organization of approximately 50‑100 people. The core mission is to drive the technical and strategic execution for reliable production operations, ensuring operability, performance, and security of GDC within the constraints of private, on‑premise, and air‑gapped environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the SRE technical strategy and architectural roadmap for GDC, ensuring the vision is set by the VP and is translated into measurable, high‑impact results.

• Develop and deliver the operations stack that enables Google's SREs, partners, and customers to operate the distributed cloud deployment.

• Own, innovate, and create programs, software solutions, process innovations, and analytics that drive improvements to the availability and operability of GDC's products.

• Lead, develop, and scale the mission‑critical SRE and Production Operations team, including managing multiple directors and/or large numbers of managers within the organization. Focus on talent management and developing leadership talent within the SRE function.

• Partner closely with the Eng Prod (e.g., Developer Velocity and QA) function to ensure production readiness, reliability validation, and the enforcement of test coverage strategy (e.g., unit, integration, silver, gold, systest) before code deployment.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

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