Software Engineering Manager, Core Dev, Rust

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 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading infrastructure changes or affecting changes for a number of Software Engineering.
• Experience with Rust and its ecosystem, or experience in C++.
• Ability to understand customer needs and work with partners to achieve shared goals.
• Understanding of programming languages and compiler technologies, or an interest in learning technical details in these problem domains.
• Passion for building a team culture from the ground up while fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Build up a healthy, functional team focused on delivering results and work closely with a executive, local tech lead to develop an engineering culture and process with a focus on delivery.
• Work with Rust leads in EMEA and the US on our shared goals, and contribute to the Rust strategy.
• Grow the ecosystem of libraries usable from Rust, and enable production development in Rust. Transform the C++ software ecosystem into a combined C++/Rust ecosystem.
• Establish customer partnerships and land Rust usage where it creates business impact.
  
• Coordinate the work of your team and foster connections between the wider Rust team to drive impact in a sustainable way, balancing team cohesion with local autonomy.

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 be at the forefront of some of the most exciting developments in programming languages. Rust is gaining adoption not only at Google, but across the entire industry as it aligns with the industry and government interest in eliminating memory safety bugs. Achieving memory safety has become a critical goal, supported by an effort spanning several organizations.

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.