Director, Engineering, Monarch
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Minimum qualifications:
- 15 years of experience working with code, networking, and operating systems.
- 10 years of experience leading engineering teams.
- Experience scaling an organization across multiple sites, mentoring and developing managers.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Experience leading developer framework or developer tools engineering teams across multiple locations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, other relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in observability or equivalent.
- 15 years of experience with databases (specialization in time series DBs), observability, and reliability engineering.
- 15 years of experience leading and implementing engineering projects at an executive level within multinational organizations.
- Experience successfully producing software products and large-scale distributed systems.
- Passion for delivering high quality infrastructure and show a complete sense of ownership for delivery of the infrastructure product.
About the job
Monarch is Google's planet-scale time series database, the backbone for monitoring and alerting across Google's vast product ecosystem. Monarch handles volumes of time-series data, enabling real-time insights into the health, performance, and availability of everything from Google Search and YouTube to Google Cloud Platform services. Our users range from internal Google developers to Cloud providers and external customers leveraging Google Cloud Monitoring. We're not just collecting data; we're providing critical insights that power Google's reliability and performance. Monarch powers dashboards, alerts, auto-scaling, and more for every team at Google.
As the Director of Engineering you will lead the charge in evolving Monarch to build a Gemini powered experience. You'll be at the forefront of defining the future of monitoring at Google, owning the roadmap and driving execution in close collaboration with a team of engineers, SREs, and partner teams.
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 $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.
Responsibilities
- Drive an architectural refresh of Monarch to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability, partnering with senior technical leaders in the P2020 and the Reliability Infrastructure teams to deliver the next transformation in Google’s internal monitoring and alerting platforms.
- Build a sustainable, scalable, and independent organization based on principled engineering practices, with deep technical and managerial leadership bench.
- Lead a product engineering team that focuses on customer success, and builds deep partnerships with our cross-functional teams (e.g., Product Management, SRE, Technical Infrastructure), our internal and external customers and strategic partner teams across Google engineering.
- Work with both decision makers and technical leaders across all of Google to formulate a strategic plan that defines the future of monitoring for Google.
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