Engineering Manager, WAN Core

1 Day ago • 8-11 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager for Google's WAN Core team, you'll lead a team in designing, building, and operating AlphaNet, Google's global private WAN network. You will provide technical guidance to the team on features impacting AlphaNet's availability, scaling, and new product introductions. Responsibilities include managing a high-performing team, prioritizing work, ensuring incremental progress, and helping team members solve problems efficiently. Strong software engineering experience (handling errors, testing, concurrency management) is crucial. The role involves managing a large product budget and overseeing international deployments of large-scale projects. The team is responsible for the networking infrastructure supporting all of Google’s technical infrastructure which has been significantly growing over the past 5 years. This is a full-time, on-site position in Dublin, Ireland.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years technical leadership & people management
  • Distributed systems design & implementation
  • Manage high-performing engineering teams
  • Prioritize work & ensure progress
Good to have:
  • Systems engineering experience
  • Networking technologies expertise (TCP/IP, MPI, RPC etc.)
  • Network Infrastructure & SDN 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 technical leadership and people management.
  • Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 1 year of experience in systems engineering (e.g., systems integration, systems testing).
  • Experience with networking technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, MPI, RPC, cluster computing, distributed applications etc.).
  • Experience in Network Infrastructure and Software-Defined Networking.

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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 WAN Core team designs, builds, and operates Google's global private WAN network, AlphaNet,which has been growing significantly in 5 years. Join us to deliver the networking that enables all Google’s technical infrastructure.

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

  • Manage a high performing team of software Engineers.
  • Provide technical guidance to the team as they design, develop, integrate and test the features for AlphaNet availability, scaling, NPIs.
  • Prioritize work and ensure that incremental progress is made even if the problems are difficult to solve in a short period of time.
  • Help team members and partner teams understand the broader context, and solve the problems on time.
  • Have software engineering experience, and understand, how to handle errors, write tests, manage concurrency, etc.

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