Software Engineering Manager, Core Integrated Systems

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.

As the Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly collaborative team of engineers responsible for building and scaling Google’s unified software package gateway. In this role, you will advocate the reliability, performance, and scaling of critical backend infrastructure. This is a high-visibility leadership position where you will partner closely with cross-functional developer platform, security, and cloud infrastructure teams to drive secure developer package adoption. You are a people-first manager who thrives on scaling complex, high-throughput distributed systems while mentoring engineers and technical leads to do their best work.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and guide an engineering team of software engineers and technical leads, fostering technical excellence, culture, and career advancement.
  
• Architect and operate highly scalable, low-latency, and reliable backend infrastructure capable of supporting Google's massive developer and CI/CD workloads.
• Lead the product and engineering strategy to drive developer adoption of unified, secure package repositories across the company.
• Partner closely with developer infrastructure, cloud registry, and security organizations across Google to deliver a seamless and secure developer experience.
• Oversee service availability, on-call health, system monitoring, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) achievements to minimize operational toil and maintain a robust production environment.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in software security compliance, vulnerability management, or license verification within developer platforms.
• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, developer registries, or package-management ecosystems.
• Experience in performance tuning and performance optimization.
• Ability to align engineering roadmaps across multiple stakeholder teams.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.