Engineering Manager, Netsoft

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Sunnyvale is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and drive technical strategy across multiple projects. You will mentor engineers, manage goals, and contribute to product strategy while ensuring alignment with Google’s cloud, AI, and infrastructure initiatives.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems, cross-functional leadership, and delivering high-impact results at scale within a global network infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide a team of software engineers, fostering technical excellence and accountability.
• Drive the technical strategy, design, and roadmap for a suite of software systems.
• Be the primary interface to internal stakeholders to understand workflows and negotiate priorities.
• Ensure quality end-to-end delivery of software from scoping to operations.
• Identify and advocate engineering best practices in the domain.

Skills

Software development experience

Technical leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

Python

Golang

C++

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

• 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.

Minimum qualifications

• 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

• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across the back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

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 Engineering Manager, you will manage a team primarily responsible for building a suite of software systems that govern Google’s massive global network and data center infrastructure. You will use your skills in people management, technical strategy, and cross-functional direction, directly impacting Google's ability to scale for the demands of Cloud, AI, and all major product areas. As an accomplished people manager and engineer, you will use your ability to understand a technically complex area to navigate and negotiate with internal stakeholders. 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

Responsibilities

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• Lead and guide a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability and professional growth.
• Drive the technical strategy, design, and roadmap for a suite of software systems.
• Be the primary interface to internal stakeholders, especially including representatives of user and partner engineering teams, to understand workflows, negotiate priorities and technical trade-offs.
• Ensure quality end-to-end delivery of software, from problem identification and scoping through to operations.
• Identify and advocate engineering best practices in the domain.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .