Engineering Manager, Capacity Management, Spatial Flex

Socket.dev; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead engineers across multiple teams, guide project goals, influence product strategy, and help develop your team. You will not only optimize your own code but ensure others can optimize theirs, while managing a large budget and multi-site deployments.

The role sits in Google's Spatial Flex and AI/Infrastructure groups, with responsibilities spanning information retrieval, distributed computing, and AI model work.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

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 and aligned 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) team(s). 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 write product or system development code to solve ambiguous 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)

Skills

Leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Large-scale infrastructure

Compute/storage architectures

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 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 related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with machine learning infrastructure, AI-powered developer tools, or agentic systems.
• Familiarity with performance analysis, modeling, and tuning of complex systems, particularly in the areas of resource management.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical projects from conception to completion and drive technical strategy in a multi-stakeholder environment.

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 optimise your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimise 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.

The "Spatial Flex" (SF) organization builds Google-wide service and resource capacity management that is simple, reliable, and efficient. Our team sits at the center of this mission, building the foundational tools and infrastructure that improve the bottom-line efficiency for all Product Areas across Alphabet while providing robust reliability guarantees for their users.

Managing one of the largest computing fleets on the planet presents a fundamental challenge: balancing the ever-growing demand for resources with the need for rock-solid reliability and maximum efficiency. The "Flex Distribution" team's mission is to solve this by engineering a Fully Self-Sustaining, SLO-Focused Fleet.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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 and aligned 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) team(s). 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 write product or system development code to solve ambiguous 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).