Google · 19 hours ago
Senior Director, Platform Operations, GDC
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$349K/yr - $485K/yr
15+ years expGoogle is seeking a Senior Director for Platform Operations within their Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) team. The role involves establishing core reliability and production standards, leading a Site Reliability Engineering team, and ensuring operational excellence for a distributed full-stack cloud product.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO
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 EngProd (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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$26.1MKey Investors
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2004-08-19IPO
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Leadership Team
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CEO
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