Senior Engineering Manager, YouTube Shopping

Google Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube Shopping team is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager in Bengaluru to lead engineering initiatives, own outcomes, and guide a team of engineers toward scalable solutions. You will drive product strategy, manage roadmaps, and collaborate with cross-functional partners across YouTube.

This role emphasizes problem solving, domain expertise, and influencing stakeholders in a large, matrixed organization. A Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Preferred: MS/PhD in Engineering, CS or related field.
• Experience in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with systems engineering practices including incident response, monitoring, SLOs, and change management.
• Experience in e-commerce software.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the team; manage roadmap and strategic initiatives with cross-functional partners; manage full-stack development.
• Mentor and grow engineers, fostering rapid prototyping, experimentation, rigorous engineering, and end-to-end features.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Act as the key technical leader in collaborations with teams across YouTube.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS or related field

Tools

Incident response

Monitoring

SLOs

Change management

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager, YouTube Shopping

Advanced

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with systems engineering practices, including incident response, monitoring, service-level objectives, and change management.
• Experience in e-commerce software.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the team. Manage the goal and definition of the roadmap and strategic initiatives in collaboration with cross-functional partners, and managing full-stack development to support these initiatives.
• Mentor and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of rapid prototyping, experimentation, rigorous engineering, and focus while developing and maintaining new features end-to-end.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
• Act as the key technical leader in collaborations with teams across YouTube.

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