Director, Cloud Networking, Hybrid Connectivity
Company: Google
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
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 .
Responsibilities Be responsible for developing networking
infrastructure and networking products to enable Google Cloud
Networking including direct business generation and indirectly all
of Google Cloud’s business. Work with executive leadership, product
and system managers, technical leads across the Cloud Networking
team, and site reliability engineering leaders owning these
products and services. Understand and learn the various
infrastructure systems, the scope and impact of these systems, and
the underlying technology. Understand and evaluate the scalability
and reliability to ensure the technical leads are always a step
ahead of customer demands.
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