Engineering Manager, Engineering Productivity, Core

4 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Engineering Manager, Engineering Productivity, Core at Google leads a charter of large-scale technology solutions within the HR Engineering organization, supporting a Digital First transformation. This role involves implementing and supporting scalable data and integration capabilities with various platforms, making trade-off decisions balancing immediate needs and long-term infrastructure health. Responsibilities include developing project roadmaps, setting team goals and priorities, coordinating resources, and providing technical leadership. The manager maintains high development practices, guides engineers in designing robust systems, and addresses critical reliability challenges while fostering career growth. The role focuses on improving development velocity, code quality, and code health within Google's Core team, which builds the foundational technical infrastructure for Google's products.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience (Python, C++, Java, JavaScript)
  • 1.5+ years leadership experience (technical or people management)
  • 1+ year experience building tools to improve development velocity
  • Experience with large-scale data and integrations
  • Agile experience and project roadmap development
Good to have:
  • Experience integrating with HR, data, and large-scale pipelines
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Understanding of SOAP, RESTful APIs, and microservices
  • Proficiency in Java, Python, Go, and CI/CD tools

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  • 1.5 years of experience in a leadership role (e.g., technical leadership or people management, supervision, or team leadership).
  • 1 year of experience building tools that improve development velocity, code quality, or code health.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience integrating with HR, data, and large-scale integrations pipelines.
  • Experience working on Agile teams, using agile tracking, and process management tools.
  • Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
  • Understanding of SOAP, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.
  • Proficient in one or more scripting and programming languages (Java, Python, Go) and CI/CD build tools.

About the job

Like Google's 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.

In this role, you will lead a charter of large-scale technology solutions in the HR Engineering organization, part of a highly critical Digital First transformation program.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and support highly scalable data and integrations capability with first-party, second-party, and third-party platform teams. Navigate without significant assistance needed from senior leadership, collaborating readily with peers and stakeholders.
  • Make trade off decisions while balancing the immediate needs and long-term health of Infra and Data analytics group.
  • Develop project roadmaps, establish team goals, set priorities, coordinate resources, and provide technical leadership, directly or in tandem with TLs, across a broader set of HR Engineering Platforms. 
  • Maintain the highest levels of development practices including: technical design, development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution, writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code.
  • Guide the engineers in the greater ecosystem to design resilient, predictable, and robust systems. Apply expertise to critical reliability challenges within the domain while growing their career.

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