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We offer a wide spectrum of solutions from managed software on your own hardware, fully managed hardware and AI-led software services, to completely air-gapped sovereign offerings.\nAs Director of Engineering for Compute Infrastructure in GDC Services, you will lead a foundational engineering organization responsible for the core compute infrastructure that power Google Distributed Cloud.\nThis role gives you direct ownership of:\nThe bedrock for sovereign AI: Your compute stack provides the high performance, confidential, and resilient substrate upon which Google’s flagship services, including on-prem Gemini, Vertex AI, autonomous agentic runtimes, are built, scheduled, and executed at scale.\n\nA flagship customer facing surface: Your organization owns the end to end compute infrastructure surface (APIs, CLI, UI, workload lifecycle, and multi-tenancy) that sovereign customers interact with daily to operate their most mission critical VM fleets.\n\nAs the Director of Engineering for Compute Infrastructure in Google Distributed Cloud, you will define the multi year technical vision and product execution roadmap across connected, edge, and fully disconnected airgapped topologies. 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