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Posted 14 June, 2026
Google

Engineering Manager, Persistent Disk (IO Platform)

Google
Kirkland WA USA Full Time
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, 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 with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures and algorithms.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects.
  • 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in one or more of the following: storage, compute, networking, high performance computing, or internal tools and infrastructure management.

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 not only optimize your own code but make sure 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 all 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; the list goes on and is growing every day. 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, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Come join a team working on distributed system problems on one of the fastest growing Google Cloud products along with a group of passionate, experienced, and supportive engineers.

Persistent Disk (PD) provides mission-critical block storage solutions to tens of thousands of enterprises affecting millions of users, and manages exabytes of data. It is a vital component of Google Cloud: every GCE VM relies on disks provided by PD. PD is also critical to many higher-level services like GKE, CloudSql, Cloud Filestore, etc.

We are solving hard performance and distributed system problems using cutting edge technologies in networking and hardware offloads.

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

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a 10+ person engineering team, taking full responsibility for coaching, performance management, and career growth.
  • Guide the team in designing, creating, and deploying a scalable PD IO stack.
  • Collaborate closely with and influence cross-functional leaders across PD and GCE.
  • Lead organizational efforts to work on ambiguous problems, translating undefined challenges into concrete, executable solutions.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.