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Software Engineering Manager II, Engineering Productivity, Looker

Software Engineering Manager II, Engineering Productivity, Looker

1 Month ago • 8-13 Years • Product Management

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Job Description

As a Software Engineering Manager II at Looker (Google), you'll lead and mentor a team of engineers, focusing on improving engineering productivity. You'll set team priorities, align strategies, and provide regular performance feedback. The role requires experience building tools to enhance development velocity and code quality. You'll design and vet systems, review code, and contribute to product strategy. The position involves managing projects across multiple teams and locations, overseeing large-scale deployments, and working with a significant budget. Responsibilities include aligning team goals with organizational objectives, developing technical roadmaps, and ensuring best practices in software development.

Must have:

8+ years software development experience
3+ years technical leadership
2+ years people management
3+ years building developer productivity tools
Set team priorities and provide performance feedback

Good to have:

Master's degree in CS or related field
Experience in complex, matrixed organizations
Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills
Interest in test automation

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

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.
3 years of experience building tools that improve development velocity, code quality, or code health.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
Excellent Influencing and stakeholder management skills.
Interest in building tools to enable automation of tests need to ship quality systems.

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 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

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 mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write 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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$189.0K - $284.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$236.5K/yr avg.

Worldwide

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