Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, FM Store

1 Week ago • 8-13 Years • Backend Development

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Job Description

This Software Engineering Manager role within Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team for the FM Store focuses on leading a team of software and systems engineers. Responsibilities include iteration and task planning, setting team priorities, driving OKR execution, building partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders, establishing technical direction, ensuring high-quality delivery, and participating in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership skills, extensive experience in software development, distributed systems, and a deep understanding of SRE principles. The role requires managing complex challenges inherent to Google's scale, while fostering a culture of collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and continuous improvement.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 8+ years experience with data structures/algorithms
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • 3+ years managing teams & distributed systems
  • Lead engineering teams, set priorities, execute OKRs
  • Build strong cross-functional partnerships
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in CS or Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance. Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation.

On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design.

SRE's culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

To learn more: check out our books on or read a about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of software and systems engineers, including iteration and task planning.
  • Deliver on manager responsibilities and care for the team. Set team priorities and drive team Objectives and Key Results (OKR) execution with input from SRE leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships with sibling team shards and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Establish technical credibility and influence technical direction and high quality delivery from the team.
  • Participate in primary oncall rotation; cultivate technical curiousity and growth mindset, and a blameless postmortem culture within the team.
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