Infrastructure Software Engineering Manager | Scale & AI

Google LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% bonus target

Equity

Job summary

Google LLC, based in Los Angeles and Playa Vista, is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Infrastructure to lead backend teams building large-scale distributed systems and storage infrastructure. You will guide technical strategy and help develop your engineers across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes AI-first engineering practices, collaboration across teams, and ensuring production stability while delivering scalable solutions for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Workspace globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or high-throughput backend infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and scale a backend engineering organization, and foster a culture of technical excellence, operational urgency, and clear accountability.
• Define and drive the multi-year technical vision, architectural roadmap, and operational execution for Google Drive's core file system, storage backend, and global data movement systems.
• Advocate modern, AI-first software engineering practices, leveraging agentic development workflows and full-stack hermetic simulation environments to accelerate design iteration, code velocity, and production verification.
• Partner with multiple Technical Leads to unify architectural strategy across interconnected storage and file system workstreams, balancing long-term platform evolution with critical product and compliance deliveries.
• Manage the architecture and production rollout of zero-downtime cross-region data migration pipelines, virtual file system (VFS) routing layers, and regional data isolation capabilities that power global enterprise data residency.

Skills

Team leadership

People management

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

Google LLC, based in Los Angeles and Playa Vista, is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Infrastructure to lead backend teams building large-scale distributed systems and storage infrastructure. You will guide technical strategy and help develop your engineers across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes AI-first engineering practices, collaboration across teams, and ensuring production stability while delivering scalable solutions for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Workspace globally.