# Director, Software Engineering, Global Network Operations

About the job Google designs, builds, and powers the computing backbone that connects billions of users to Google products and cloud services. Within GGII, the Global Network Operations (GNO) team is responsible for ensuring our production network performs to expectations for our internal and external customers. This is accomplished through the engineering improvement of Google’s network observability capabilities and automating of our repair pipeline. As the Director, Global Network Operations (GNO) you will define and execute the strategic production of our Engineering Operations Roadmap. You will lead a high-performing organization of Network Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Software Engineers and Data Analysts to uncover and surface insights that help us more powerfully assess and attend to our network performance. You will partner closely with other platform owners and software teams to ensure our Management, Control, and Forwarding planes are well engineered and working in harmony to produce SLOs that delight our internal and external customers. You will develop and influence future technical leadership for Google’s Global Infrastructure organization through mentorship,

- **Id**: 4112643
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-director-software-engineering-global-network-operations>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Thornton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T22:37:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T23:36:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 131
- **Ghost share**: 0.038
- **Stale share**: 0.756
- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Management years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T23:36:56Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T01:28:39Z

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