Engineering Manager, Capacity & Spatial Flex — Lead Scalable Infra

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

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.