Engineering Manager, Google Photos

1 Month ago • 8-11 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager at Google Photos, you'll lead a new Machine Learning team focused on leveraging ML technologies to enhance user experience. Responsibilities include building and leading a high-performing team, recruiting and mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, collaborating with cross-functional partners to define team goals and strategies, promoting a collaborative work environment, and delivering high-quality software solutions. The role requires strong technical leadership, experience in managing engineering teams, and a deep understanding of machine learning principles. You'll manage projects, contribute to product strategy and develop your team, working across client-side (web and mobile), server-side (search, storage, serving), and machine intelligence components of Google Photos.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership
  • 2+ years people management
  • Machine Learning experience
  • Build and lead high-performing teams
  • Deliver high-quality software solutions
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in Computer Science
  • Large Language Model (LLM) experience

Job Details

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 projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
  • Experience working in the Machine Learning field, including training and evaluating models.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience with Large Language Model (LLM).

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.

Our goal is to generate high quality, visually compelling memories that help you relive the most important moments in your life.

In this role, you will lead a new Machine Learning-focused team within Reminiscing, focused on leveraging Machine Learning technologies to define the future of what our memories can be.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing team. Recruit, hire, and mentor a team of software engineers.
  • Establish and promote software engineering best practices, balancing code health with project velocity and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define the team's goal, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall Google Photos goals.
  • Advocate a collaborative work environment, encouraging knowledge sharing, open communication, and mutual respect.
  • Deliver high-quality software solutions that delight users and contribute to the continued success of Google Photos.

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