Senior Software Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

1 Month ago • 10-15 Years • Product Management • Research & Development • DevOps

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Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google Cloud, you will lead and manage a team of engineers across multiple teams and locations, overseeing large-scale projects internationally. You'll need strong technical expertise and leadership skills to set team priorities, align strategies, and guide the long-term technical vision. Responsibilities include performance management, code review, ensuring best practices, and contributing to product strategy. The role requires experience in software development (Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript), technical leadership, and people management within a complex organizational structure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of systems design and a proven ability to deliver large-scale projects.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 5+ years technical leadership
  • 5+ years people management
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Set team priorities and align strategies
  • Oversee systems design and code review
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in CS
  • Experience in a complex matrixed organization

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 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 strategic 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 related technical field.
  • 5 years of 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.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. 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.
  • Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Develop the long-term technical vision and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
  • Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
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