Engineering Manager, Woodshed

Google Inc.

Pittsburgh (Allegheny County)

On-site

USD 207,000 - 300,000

Full time

41 hours ago
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Google Pittsburgh is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers within Core AI Foundations. You will drive outcomes, provide technical leadership, and align efforts across multiple sites and product areas, including ML infra for Gemini, YouTube, Ads, and more.

You will manage project goals, contribute to product strategy, and grow your team while partnering with cross-functional partners to scale systems and processes at Google scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software engineering, management, and distributed systems.
  • Experience in people management.
  • Experience with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own outcomes and decision making for multiple teams and projects.
  • Provide technical leadership on major projects and oversee engineers.
  • Manage a team of engineers across locations and sites.
  • Contribute to product strategy and team development.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align efforts.

Skills

People management
Cross-functional collaboration
Decision making
Outcome ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software engineering, management, and distributed systems.
  • Experience in people management.
  • Experience with cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred qualifications:
  • 10 years of experience with cloud infrastructure (Compute or Storage) and database products, services, and solutions.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
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 part of our team in Core AI Foundations, you will work on a large scale distributed system that is critical for Machine Learning infra at Google scale. Our team has been empowering most of the AI/ML workloads for Ads, Search, and YouTube for years. It is being expanded to support Gemini, GenMedia, Waymo, Workspace, Google Pay, and more and more Product Areas. In this role, you will have infra experience, be outcome driven, have passion for technology, and work in a fast growing environment.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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

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 part of our team in Core AI Foundations, you will work on a large scale distributed system that is critical for Machine Learning infra at Google scale. Our team has been empowering most of the AI/ML workloads for Ads, Search, and YouTube for years. It is being expanded to support Gemini, GenMedia, Waymo, Workspace, Google Pay, and more and more Product Areas. In this role, you will have infra experience, be outcome driven, have passion for technology, and work in a fast growing environment.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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 .

  • Develop individual contributors into technical leaders and domain owners, guide performance reviews, promotion trajectories, and career advancement.
  • Serve as the local anchor and culture carrier for the Pittsburgh site, aligning local execution with global multi-site strategy and cross-functional partners.
  • Partner with technical leads to componentize the stack, aligning our core primitives with shared storage infrastructure across the broader organization.
  • Evolve systems capable of supporting data growth and intensive write fan-in from distributed training jobs and continuous logging.
  • Collaborate with premier customer engineering teams (e.g., Gemini Pre-Training, DeepMind, Ads ML, Search, YouTube, Waymo) to translate emerging ML workload patterns into core storage capabilities.

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.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.

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