Software Engineer Manager II, Infrastructure

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.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Use a deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs and C++, and abilities to leverage rich and powerful infrastructure tools such as Chubby, Spanner and Compute infrastructure, design and implement solutions that make the load balancing (LB) configuration infra systems more reliable, more scalable, easier to use and feature rich.
• Collaborate with other members of the team, and stakeholders such as SRE and partner teams that use the config infra system (or would like to start using it) to collect requirements, to get buy-in for designs, plan execution and rollout of changes.
• Participate in team activities including reviewing code changes made by others, support for users with questions or issues, bug fixes, support our partner SRE in addressing issues in production, support hiring efforts, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Development experience in C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience in Stubby, Chubby, Linux, Networking, Distributed Computing, multithreaded programming.
• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.