Director, Databases Manageability and AI-assistance Full-time

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience leading teams of software engineers in cloud-based, or open source projects.
• Experience in design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience building storage or distributed back end systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading an engineering team to successfully build and scale a distributed system.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management to achieve business goals.
• Experience collaborating with multiple product and engineering teams.
• Experience delivering successfully within tight timelines.

About the job

As the Director, Databases Manageability and AI-assistance you will lead the engineering organization globally for AI-assistance for Databases development. You will lead cross-organizationally and cross-globally and be responsible for building and operating a large scale business or function there-in. As part of this role, you will define the strategy, develop a joint roadmap, secure commitments, and execute on a set of projects across multiple database services including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore.

Engineering Directors have not only the technical chops to take initiative and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of engineers. You will be responsible for product strategy, determining and driving project goals, and developing your team. Software Engineering teams work across the company, in areas such as data storage, databases, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design, the list goes on and is growing every day. With extensive technical and leadership expertise, you will manage engineering leaders across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget, and oversee the deployment of large scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In this role, you will lead and grow the team, and bring a deep understanding of software (e.g., operating systems, cloud) due to the evolving and growing nature of our business. You will bring a solid understanding of distributed systems at scale. Working in this team will expose you to both building a complex cloud service and managing a hyper-scale business within Google Cloud.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.

Responsibilities

• Hire and build an exceptional database engineering team including senior technical leadership to drive and execute on Google’s global database charter.
• Be a senior leader for Google Cloud in India – define culture, hiring, growth, and development of engineers.
• Shape and deliver Google Cloud database products. Establish and manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy, drive architecture decisions, and design solutions to resolve challenging problems for our customers.
• Provide technical leadership to your engineering team, be a partner for cross-functional teams including Site Reliability Engineering, Product Management, Go-To-Market, and other partner teams to deliver the best product offering. Manage robust and scalable systems in order to get ahead of the exponential demand.
• Manage a software engineering team that builds, designs, implements, and maintains front-ends and back-ends for Google’s PaaS/IaaS products and related services.