Senior Director, Engineering, Data Integration
Company: Google
Location: Cupertino
Posted on: March 18, 2026
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Job Description:
Minimum qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or
equivalent practical experience. 15 years of professional
experience in engineering leadership or related technical roles. 5
years of experience working with big data analytics, machine
learning, AI, Large Language Models (LLM) to process and create
data. Experience operating in a hyper-growth entrepreneurial
environment, scaling new and emerging products from the ground-up.
Preferred qualifications: PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
Experience working in the data analytics and management space.
Experience bringing innovative, industry-leading, category-defining
tech products to market. Experience working with executive level
internal and external clients/partners, acting as a representative
of the company. Ability to work cross-functionally, partnering with
groups (e.g., Product Management, Product Marketing, UX and UI),
brokering trade offs with stakeholders and understanding their
needs. Excellent narrative and storytelling abilities, including
excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
About the job As Senior Director, Engineering, you will be
responsible for leading teams of engineers in the development and
delivery of Apache Airflow, Data Engineering Agents and other Data
Integration and Orchestration services at GCP as part of Google
Data Cloud. You will work closely with product managers, designers,
and other stakeholders to develop managed airflow, data engineering
agents, and similar OSS offerings for machine learning, data
ingestion and data integration services for analytics workloads.
Youll support Open APIs such as Airflow, Iceberg and MLFlow etc.,
to develop market leading services that embrace openness, while
leveraging GCP’s unique data and infrastructure advantages. In this
role, you will set and communicate a clear technical direction that
supports our business goals, drive standards for engineering
excellence that lead to scale and customer satisfaction, and
effectively collaborate with other leaders across various functions
and execution areas. As Google Cloud embraces differences of
opinion and a culture of respect, you will be able to mentor other
leaders and individual contributors and become a great cultural
addition. 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 $365,000-$505,000 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 Lead a globally distributed team with laser focus
on customer centricity and rapid innovation. Embrace the rapidly
evolving agentic era of data engineering/analytics and work with
PMs to shape the product and user experience accordingly. Build and
sustain a culture of service excellence for mission critical
enterprise workloads. Hire and nurture team talent that is capable
of delivering high-scale, product innovation while maintaining the
operational excellence required to support global business
lines.
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