Engineering Manager, Software Engineering

Google; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers working on large-scale backend systems within Google Cloud Storage. You will guide architecture decisions, manage delivery across teams and locations, and help align technical strategy with product goals.

You will mentor engineers, set roadmaps, and balance shipping quality code with long-term reliability, scalability, and security. The role requires strong leadership and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role overseeing projects.
• 3 years in a people management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of software engineers and nurture growth.
• Guide system architecture and design, ensuring timely, safe decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to roadmap and improve GCS capabilities.
• Oversee compliance infrastructure and address technical debt to maintain reliability.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Backend system design

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's or PhD in Engineering/CS (preferred)

Tools

Monarch

Spanner

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.

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, Go, JavaScript).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's or PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Proven ability to demonstrate staff-level technical judgement and decision-making for large-scale back-end systems.
• Excellent working proficiency, communication skills, and experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable products and services for external clients.
• Experience with large-scale backend server infrastructure (e.g., Monarch, Spanner, etc.).

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. 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

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of software engineers. Perform talent reviews, ensure growth opportunities exist for top talent, and build a healthy team culture.
• Exercise the technical judgment and decision-making expected of staff-level engineers to guide system architecture and design. Ensure technical decisions are made promptly and risks are proactively managed to unblock engineers.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders from horizontal compliance teams and within Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to develop new capabilities, publish multi-year roadmaps, and improve the quality and reliability of existing solutions.
• Manage the compliance infrastructure for GCS, ensuring robustness, scalability, and reliability while actively addressing technical debt.

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