Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience leading infrastructure teams through technological shifts or platform migrations.
• Experience in areas such as distributed systems, performance optimization and reliability engineering.
• Ability to influence and align priorities across leaders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for addressing ambiguous, open-ended problems with the ability to build and execute solutions.

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 Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Identify engineering requirements within the team, including tech debt, technology advancements or migrations, and processes needed to enhance engineering quality. Demonstrate technical depth and knowledge of the product and ancillary product suite and reviewing engineers' designs, collaborate on new ideas.
• Work with many of the Admins and Agents. Own the success of these relationships.
• Recruit and grow engineering talent in the team. Build a culture of ownership and accountability, with consistent technical standards and a supportive environment.
• Work with several teams with people in different roles UX, Technical Program Managers (TPGMs) and Product Managers (PMs). Have excellent communication and consensus-building skills to ensure success.

Experience Level

Senior Level