Senior Software Engineering Manager, Agentic Policies Platform

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead and grow talented engineers across multiple teams. You will provide technical leadership for major projects, guide product strategy, and mentor engineers to improve their skills while delivering high-impact software at scale.

You will work across information retrieval, AI, security, and large-scale systems, overseeing budgets and coordinating with PMs, TPMs, and engineering leads to align roadmaps with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience in people management, including managing software engineers.
• 3 years of experience managing other managers.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience using agile methodologies and tooling.
• Familiarity with Identity, Authentication or Security.

Responsibilities

• Inspire, manage, and grow a talented team of software engineers, fostering an open environment while actively guiding their career development.
• Provide end-to-end technical leadership for complex projects, overseeing requirements, design, implementation, testing, launch, and support.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders (PMs, TPMs, and Engineering Leads) to define and execute a compelling long-term goal and product strategy.
• Drive the planning and delivery of large-scale, infrastructure systems within a changing environment.
• Build and operate hyper-reliable infrastructure to deliver fast, intuitive, and always-correct access control for GCP customers.

Skills

Programming languages

People management

Managing managers

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience in people management, including managing software engineers.
• 3 years of experience managing other managers.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience using agile methodologies and tooling.
• Familiarity with Identity, Authentication or Security.

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 Control Plane team is seeking an experienced leader to build and grow our highly performant engineering teams while managing Identity and Access Management policies across all of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

In this role, you will provide thought leadership to evolve our governance for dynamic, non-human identities. You will own a highly reliable and secure platform governing billions of policies, delivering scalable features that empower administrators, delight external customers, and power core GCP services in an increasingly agentic world.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

US: $262000 - $365000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Inspire, manage, and grow a talented team of software engineers, fostering an open environment while actively guiding their career development.
• Provide end-to-end technical leadership for complex projects, overseeing requirements, design, implementation, testing, launch, and support.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders (PMs, TPMs, and Engineering Leads) to define and execute a compelling long-term goal and product strategy.
• Drive the planning and delivery of large-scale, infrastructure systems within a changing environment.
• Build and operate hyper-reliable infrastructure to deliver fast, intuitive, and always-correct access control for GCP customers.

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 .