Software Engineering Manager, Google Compute Engine

3 Months ago • 8-11 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager at Google, you'll lead a team of engineers working on Google Compute Engine (GCE), a key component of Google Cloud Platform. You'll be responsible for setting priorities, building partnerships, identifying and resolving technical issues, and contributing to product strategy. The Managed Infrastructure and Automation (MIAU) team focuses on providing reliable, cost-effective, and user-friendly virtual machine management solutions. You'll be involved in building and maintaining backend components for provisioning and orchestrating virtual machines, including Google Batch, a system for executing batch jobs efficiently and at scale. This role requires strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to manage large-scale projects internationally.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience with software development
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
  • 2 years of experience in people management
Good to have:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science
  • Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization

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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

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.

The Managed Infrastructure and Automation (MIAU) team is part of Control Plane within Google Compute Engine (GCE), it empowers customers and internal Google Cloud Platfomr (GCP) services through seamlessly reliable, surprisingly cost-effective, and delightfully easy-to-use virtual machine management solutions. The team builds and maintains backend components for provisioning and orchestrating virtual machines. Google Batch is a system designed to provision, schedule, queue, and execute batch jobs on managed Google Cloud resources. Its long-term goal is to serve as the foundational building block for executing batch jobs in an almost serverless manner, while achieving resource efficiency, high throughput, and scalability.

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

  • Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  • Build cross-functional partnerships, and work closely with developers and product managers to identify productivity, production quality and coverage issues, and provide insight on improving both through scale and tooling.
  • Set direction and priorities for the product area, in cooperation with the team.
  • Build, grow and retain top talent, and continually find ways to inspire and challenge the engineering organization.
  • Work with team members on their career and general performance.

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