Engineering Manager, Health and Home Infrastructure

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of engineers across projects that span information retrieval, AI, NLP, distributed computing, and large-scale system design. You will guide technical strategy, mentor engineers, and help align product goals with engineering execution.

You will manage teams across sites internationally, oversee large budgets, and drive deployment of major initiatives. Strong leadership and technical depth are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 3 years in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or compute/storage/hardware.
• Experience with infrastructure and production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers and drive hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
• Define engineering roadmaps and align technical investments with long-term goals.
• Partner with client teams to establish roles and responsibilities for infrastructure.

Skills

Software development experience

Large-scale infrastructure

Infrastructure and Production Systems

Compute/storage hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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.
• Experience with Infrastructure and Production Systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience leading engineering teams in distributed transactional storage.

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.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it. 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:

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers. Drive hiring, onboarding, career development, mentorship, and performance management while fostering a high-trust, high-performance, collaborative team culture.
• Define and drive the strategic direction and engineering roadmaps aligning technical investments with Google Home’s long-term goals.
• Partner with client teams to establish clear roles and responsibilities for horizontal infrastructure.