Software Engineer Manager, Google Cloud Business Platform

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer Manager for Google Cloud Business Platform in Bengaluru. The role focuses on technical leadership, defining roadmaps, and delivering large-scale systems while guiding engineers across multiple teams and locations.

You will manage project goals, contribute to product strategy and develop your team in areas like AI, NLP, and distributed computing, with a strong emphasis on execution at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years 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 the broader organization's goals, align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
• Establish 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.
• Develop the technical direction and roadmap within the scope of the team, evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and work closely with the team to solve ambiguous problems.
• Manage and deliver the life-cycle of projects spanning across planning, design, execution and launch.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Decision making

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spanner

BigQuery

Job description

Software Engineer Manager, Google Cloud Business Platform

Advanced

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

X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

• 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:

• 7 years of experience building and developing scaled infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage (spanner, bigquery).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing or launching software product.
• Experience of building products using GenAI/Large Language Models (LLMs).

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.

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will lead the incentives workstream and enhance existing systems within the Google Cloud Business Platform (GCBP). You will adopt an AI-first approach, solve complex, cross-functional business problems and collaborate with UX, Product Managers, and operations teams. Your role offers exposure to Google's technology stacks and user flows in a dynamic environment.

You will manage project goals, contribute to product strategy, and develop your team across the areas like AI, natural language processing, and large-scale system design. You will operate with speed and scale, guide exceptional engineers in delivering impactful software solutions. 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.
• Establish 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.
• Develop the technical direction and roadmap within the scope of the team, evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and work closely with the team to solve ambiguous problems.
• Manage and deliver the life-cycle of projects spanning across planning, design, execution and launch.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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