Engineering Manager, Search Platforms

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Bengaluru seeks an Engineering Manager for Search Platforms to lead multiple teams, guide project goals, and influence product strategy. You will help developers optimize code and ensure scalable, reliable search infrastructure across global platforms.

The role requires deep experience in software development, technical leadership, and people management. You will collaborate with stakeholders, set priorities, and drive architectural decisions across complex systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support organizational goals.
• Set expectations with team members based on their level and role and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop technical goals and roadmaps and advocate AI adoption within the team.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs and contribute code to solve problems.
• Review code from other engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Engineering Manager, Search Platforms

Google

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience with working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with Platform, Infrastructure or Server Side.

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.

Search Serving Infra provides the framework for sustainable, performant and reliable execution of Search products and features at scale. The team is responsible for optimizing and defending the user-visible Search Latency. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the organization's goals. Define and evolve the charter of the team with a balanced portfolio of foundational investments, exploratory bets.
• Set expectations with people based on their level and role and aligned to the organization's goals. Meet regularly with people to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the technical goal and roadmap Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs. Be an advocate for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in the team.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the area, and write product or system development code to solve 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).

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