Senior Software Engineering Manager, GCE Control Plane
Kirkland, WA, USA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years programming in C++; 7 years in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; 5 years in technical leadership; 5 years in people management or team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads engineering teams responsible for the GCE Control Plane, improving infrastructure reliability, resiliency, security, and capacity for AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Scale engineering teams managing foundational GCE Control Plane infrastructure and build resilience against AI workloads.
- Lead sharding, automated disaster recovery, blast-radius containment, and dynamic capacity initiatives.
- Set technical goals and improve platform security and continuous compliance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 7 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- 5 years each in technical leadership and people management or team leadership roles.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience managing managers and scaling engineering organizations; expertise in reliability, disaster recovery, or cloud security and compliance.
Pay
$262000 - $364000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
AI focus
Uses AI-driven anomaly detection and automated rollbacks, and adapts throttling and quotas for AI workloads; builds resiliency for hyper-accelerated AI workloads and a rapidly scaling AI fleet.
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