Software Engineer Manager, Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Google is seeking a Software Engineer Manager for their Infrastructure team, focusing on managing engineers and technical leadership for large-scale projects. The role involves setting team priorities, developing roadmaps, designing systems, and writing code. While the team works on AI challenges and collaborates with AI Research, the core function of this management role is infrastructure and people management, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • people management
  • team leadership
  • infrastructure building
  • simulation
  • emulation
  • dev tools

Nice to have

  • complex, matrixed organization

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
  • Experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role
  • Experience building infrastructure, simulation, emulation, and dev tools to increase developer productivity