Senior Engineering Manager, Sports, Search

37 Minutes ago • 8-13 Years • Research & Development • Full Stack Development

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Job Description

This Senior Engineering Manager role at Google focuses on building and leading teams that develop full-stack search technologies related to sports. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, managing a team across multiple locations, overseeing large-scale projects, and contributing to product strategy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, technical leadership, and people management, along with experience in a complex organizational structure. The role involves building products to improve the search experience for sports-related information, enabling users to easily find sports news, scores, and content. The position requires evolving the team's image with a balance of foundational investments, exploratory projects, and business priorities.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)
  • 5+ years technical leadership & project oversight
  • 5+ years people management/team leadership
  • Build full-stack search technologies
  • Manage engineering teams across locations
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in CS or related field
  • 5+ years experience in complex matrixed organization
  • Machine Learning experience

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).
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Experience in Machine Learning (ML).

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.

In this role, you will build products that help people follow their favorite sports, teams and athletes on search. You will help users find sports information and content easily.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and manage a team that builds full-stack search related technologies and distinguishes features by leveraging Google's technical advancements.
  • Evolve the image of the team with a balanced portfolio of foundational investments, exploratory bets, and run the business priorities.
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