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September 17, 2025

Staff Software Engineering Manager, Hybrid/On-Premise Infrastructure

Senior • On-site

$248,000 - $349,000/yr

Kirkland, WA , +1


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with software development.
  • 7 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
  • 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in Technical Leadership.
  • Ability to create technology.
  • Ability to drive innovation and ideation.
  • Ability to acclimate to new domains and define direction.
  • Excellent cross-functional, product/engineering and infrastructure development leadership skills.

About the job

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.

With your extensive technical expertise you take initiative to independently design and implement new systems, designing, implementing, and testing multiple features with little or no direction from tech lead or manager. You collaborate with key stakeholders to determine future direction of work.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for providing the APIs and components that can integrate into customers' control plane and third party tooling for provisioning, maintaining and operating large scale clusters.
  • Define and advocate technical goal.
  • Architect and Deliver High-Impact Solutions, influence Product and Engineering direction, cultivate and lead Partnerships.
  • Advocate Customer-Centric Innovation, elevate engineering and operational excellence, accelerate product Initiatives.
  • Build and Empower High-Performing Teams, mentor and grow future leaders.