Engineering Manager, Capacity Management, Spatial Flex

Engineering Manager, Capacity Management, Spatial Flex Location: Kirkland, WA, USA

Experience Level: Advanced

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Job Overview In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US-based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure, AI-powered developer tools, or agentic systems.
• Familiarity with performance analysis, modeling, and tuning of complex systems, particularly in resource management.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical projects from conception to completion and drive technical strategy in a multi-stakeholder environment.

About the Job Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects but also manage a team of Engineers. You will optimize your own code and ensure that Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager, you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team.

Teams work across the company in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design, and more. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started-and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, oversee a large product budget, and deploy large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

The "Spatial Flex" (SF) organization builds Google-wide service and resource capacity management that is simple, reliable, and efficient. Our team sits at the center of this mission, building foundational tools and infrastructure that improve efficiency across Alphabet while providing reliability guarantees for users.

Managing one of the largest computing fleets on the planet presents a fundamental challenge: balancing the ever-growing demand for resources with the need for rock-solid reliability and maximum efficiency. The "Flex Distribution" team's mission is to solve this by engineering a Fully Self-Sustaining, SLO-Focused Fleet.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. Our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Salary: $207,000 - $300,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s).

  Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.

• Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the broader scope, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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