
Director, Engineering, Google Global Fleet, Tier -1
Sunnyvale, CAJob$307–427K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Google Global Fleet forecasts, plans, and allocates infrastructure capacity across Google. The Director, Engineering, Google Global Fleet, Tier -1 leads development of capacity planning, forecasting, and allocation systems, focusing on demand planning and capture for Cloud and product-facing retail capacity products. The role partners with business leaders on short- and long-term capacity needs and uses AI techniques to build tools and analytics that increase capacity delivery velocity.
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Director, Engineering, Google Global Fleet, Tier -1
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, other relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
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15 years of experience in distributed computing infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering.
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10 years of experience building and leading teams.
About the job
Google Global Fleet (GGF) is responsible for forecasting, planning, and allocating infrastructure capacity for customers across all of Google. As the leader of Google Global Fleet, Tier -1 you will be responsible for developing capacity planning, forecasting, and allocations systems, with a focus on demand planning and capture for Cloud & our product area-facing retail capacity products. You will work directly with business leaders to provide solutions for short and long term capacity needs, while using AI techniques to rapidly build tools and analytics to increase our capacity delivery velocity for Google’s customers.
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: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Provide execution leadership on software engineering projects (resourcing, prioritization, partner team interlock, scoping).
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Set the technical, organizational and business strategy in partnership with technical leads and managers, outlining the team charter, 2-3 year deliverables and how this function can deliver Google Global Fleet and Google Global Infrastructure objectives.
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Contribute to GGF shared mission as part of the leadership team and work collectively to deliver GGF’s top objectives. Evolve and scale key current services and systems to meet current needs and making space for future evolution of our key architecture.
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Establish team culture focused on engineering/product/operational excellence.
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Mentor and provide career management, hire and develop technical leaders. Oversee customer engagement and collaboration with strategic partners.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,789 open Engineering Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$307–427K/yr
- California median$214–312K/yr228 salary ranges
- US median$182–298K/yr1,427 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $367K, is 42% above the California median midpoint ($259K) — in the top quarter of Engineering Leadership salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 267 open Engineering Leadership jobs in California and 1,789 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience; Engineering Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years at the median (1,449 postings).
- Education
- 633 of the 1,789 open Engineering Leadership jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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