About the job

Like Googles 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.

One of the goals for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and App Hub is to provide an application-centric view of GCP infrastructure to customers. App Hub aims to optimize productivity of GCP application developers, application operators, and platform operators by streamlining their application development, deployments, and DevOps, while abstracting cloud infrastructure primitives. As part of App Hub, our team is responsible for the entire App Hub surface to present customers a smooth unified experience for app-centric manageability, observability, and governance, which includes the interfaces, performance monitoring for application-centric view, policy and governance management, and a few more evolving areas.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and manage a team of Software Engineers, make direct technical contributions, and provide guidance to team members. Guide the team through engaged priorities and balance short-term needs versus long-term strategic goals.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering leads, and partner teams to define the goals and drive the strategic roadmap.
• Participate in engineering engagement with internal teams across sites and external partners, and influence and manage relationships with them.
• Set the technical direction and plan deliverables and milestones. Drive execution, meet deadlines, and communicate status.
• Empower and grow the team’s leadership and technical impact by modeling teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and technical excellence.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in designing and building high-performance back-end systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and developing at scale.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with other Software Engineers, Tech Leads, senior staff, and Engineering Managers.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)