Engineering Manager, Information Retrieval

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 leadership role (e.g., technical leadership or people management, supervision, or team leadership).
• 3 year of experience building tools that improve development velocity, code quality, or code health.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on Agile teams, using agile tracking, and process management tools.
  
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
  
• Experience in one or more scripting and programming languages (Java, Python, Go) and CI/CD build tools.
• Understanding of SOAP, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.
  

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally to define the technical direction, align the agenda, and transform the web indexing system to support the web processing needs across Google.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support the critical customer investment and provide sustainable web processing solutions on top of IR stack.
• Build and manage a team of software engineers who build solutions to address critical problems for web and media data customers.

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.

In this role you will lead a team in Bengaluru and contribute to the development and optimization of Information Retrieval (IR) systems. You will work cross-functionally and help define road map for specific areas of the IR Applications.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.