This Software Engineering Manager II position at Google focuses on the reliability of Google Cloud Storage (GCS). Responsibilities include setting team priorities, aligning strategies across teams, providing individual performance feedback and coaching, developing mid-term technical roadmaps, designing and vetting systems, writing code to solve complex problems, and reviewing code for quality and efficiency. The role requires extensive experience building and developing infrastructure or distributed systems, along with leadership experience. The team works to improve GCS's serving stack reliability by establishing health measurements, designing issue discovery mechanisms, building attribution frameworks, and optimizing inter-component call patterns. This involves collaboration with key stakeholders to determine the future direction of work and independent design and implementation of new systems.