Software Engineering Manager II, Infrastructure, Google Cloud

About the role

Software Engineering Managers at Google lead teams across major projects, set technical direction, and align strategy with organizational goals. They manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, oversee large product budgets, and guide the deployment of large-scale projects internationally. Teams work in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, and user interface design.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support broader organizational goals.
• Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, aligned to broader goals.
• Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance, development, and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your team(s).
• Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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 building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 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.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28–30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

US: $207,000 – $300,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

This position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. Preferred working locations include Kirkland, WA; Cambridge, MA; Durham, NC; Raleigh, NC; and Boulder, CO.