Privacy & Security Software Engineering Manager

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams across privacy, safety, security, and compliance. You will design systems, review code, and guide engineers to optimize performance while coaching the next generation of technical leaders.

You will manage budgets, coordinate across sites, and contribute to product strategy while advancing large-scale distributed backend services. The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and delivering secure, scalable solutions at scale.

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.
• Experience building developer platforms, automated code-fixing or CI/CD pipelines, distributed backend services.

Responsibilities

• Learn more about benefits at Google .
• Spend your time designing systems, writing and reviewing code, and improving our multi-agent pipelines, evaluation judges, and verification sandboxes.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers and tech leads, keeping the team focused on solving real Privacy, Safety, Security, and compliance problems rather than building unnecessary complexity.
• Drive our multi-quarter strategy with partner teams across Privacy, Safety, Security, and Compliance.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Developer platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed backend

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

8 years of software development experience

3 years in technical leadership

2 years in people management

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams across privacy, safety, security, and compliance. You will design systems, review code, and guide engineers to optimize performance while coaching the next generation of technical leaders.

You will manage budgets, coordinate across sites, and contribute to product strategy while advancing large-scale distributed backend services. The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and delivering secure, scalable solutions at scale.