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.
AlloyDB is part of the Google Cloud Database area and focuses on RDBMS space; a multi-billion dollar business opportunity and growth accelerator for other Google Cloud products. AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade, cloud native transactional database for high availability and performance. AlloyDB, combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for availability, performance, security and manageability.
In this role, you will contribute to both the database control plane and the database kernel, and additionally focus on integration with extended functionalities in the Google Cloud ecosystem, developer tooling and database clients.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
- Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, align to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
- Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Manage technical issues related to performance, scalability, concurrency, and reliability in a large-scale distributed database system.
Qualifications
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.
- 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
- Experience with cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, and platforms and data).
- Experience deploying and managing cloud-based applications.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
- Experience with software development in C and C++.
- Experience with database internals (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), query optimization and compilers.
- Experience leading a team of software engineers to build, and deliver managed services.
- Experience with RDBMS internals.
- Knowledge of RDBMS core functions such as serializability and consistency.