Director, Engineering, Core Data Processing

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• 15 years of experience leading infrastructure engineering teams, spread across geographies.
• Experience managing and growing mission-critical, globally distributed organizations.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing an organization through change.
• Familiarity with Google’s application needs for data infrastructure.
• Expertise with planet scale system development, resource constraints, and machine learning models.
• Excellent technical aptitude, with ability to balance perspectives of infrastructure engineers that build the systems and internal customers that use the systems.
• Innovative thinker with a collaborative approach to problem solving, passion for working in a highly cross-functional environment, and comfort in dealing with ambiguity.
• Drive to improve and clarify the data landscape to support new product growth and user trust.

The Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) organization within Core Data focuses on the critical user journey of deriving insight from structured data at Google scale. Frequently the journey starts with end user activity data from Google applications, moves and transforms in pipelines, lands in a data warehouse, and then is queried by BI tools or ML-driven anomaly detection to find actionable insights. The DANI systems that power these journeys also underpin many of Google’s businesses including Ads, Search, Cloud, GDM, and Finance and are leveraged for a wide variety of use cases including BI and SQL analytics, data science and interactive analysis, real-time data serving for applications and machine learning.

As the Director of Core Data Processing (CoreDP), you will be responsible for this critical portfolio of production systems, both building and helping operate them.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $294,000-$414,000 + 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.

• Lead the strategic direction for CoreDP including consolidating and evolving the product portfolio to better support the end-to-end data engineering user journeys in close collaboration with the user journey leads.
• Provide leadership in support of DANI’s upcoming organization-wide re-architecture program to build the data platform Google needs for the future.
• Partner and collaborate with Google’s largest and most critical product areas at the center of our AI efforts including Google DeepMind, Ads, and Search, in support of extending our technology to meet the needs of ML practitioners doing LLM training.