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Director, Cloud Networking, Hybrid Connectivity

Google
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Mar 2026
💰 $427,000/yr($307,000/yr$427,000/yr)

About the role

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 20 years of experience leading software engineers across geographies with a focus on networking platforms, load balancing, routing, scalability, reliability, and high availability.
  • 10 years of experience with private and public cloud design considerations and limitations in the areas of virtualization, global infrastructure, distributed ML and HPC systems, load balancing, networking, data storage, and security.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
  • Experience successfully building software and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience delivering successfully within time sensitive timelines.
  • Experience with customer-facing products and in design, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

About the job

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides external developers a set of services that allow them to run any or all of their applications on Google's infrastructure. The benefits include performance, scale, reliability, ease of use, and a pay-as-you-go cost model.

As Director, Cloud Networking, Hybrid Connectivity, you will provide strategic direction, technical oversight, and operational management for a unique portfolio of critical products and infrastructure within the cloud networking team. As a leader of multiple engineering centers of excellence, you will be instrumental in fostering an engineering culture with successful delivery of networking products. These include systems and services that drive edge and hybrid networking, enabling the next generation of AI workloads spanning GCP and partner ecosystems. Networking represents 60% of the customer-facing APIs in Google Cloud, processing high rates of change across zonal, regional, and global scopes with extremely high reliability goals.

In this role, you will utilize an understanding of networking platforms and lead executive managers while being fully accountable for the strategic evolution of the platform, the organizational evolution of the team, including hiring and performance management, and the cost and efficiency of the services comprising this platform.

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 $307,000-$427,000 + 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.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides external developers a set of services that allow them to run any or all of their applications on Google's infrastructure. The benefits include performance, scale, reliability, ease of use, and a pay-as-you-go cost model.

As Director, Cloud Networking, Hybrid Connectivity, you will provide strategic direction, technical oversight, and operational management for a unique portfolio of critical products and infrastructure within the cloud networking team. As a leader of multiple engineering centers of excellence, you will be instrumental in fostering an engineering culture with successful delivery of networking products. These include systems and services that drive edge and hybrid networking, enabling the next generation of AI workloads spanning GCP and partner ecosystems. Networking represents 60% of the customer-facing APIs in Google Cloud, processing high rates of change across zonal, regional, and global scopes with extremely high reliability goals.

In this role, you will utilize an understanding of networking platforms and lead executive managers while being fully accountable for the strategic evolution of the platform, the organizational evolution of the team, including hiring and performance management, and the cost and efficiency of the services comprising this platform.

Responsibilities

  • Be responsible for developing networking infrastructure and networking products to enable Google

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