Senior Software Engineering Manager, Systems & Infra

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a group of engineers and drive critical projects across core infrastructure. You will manage several teams, guide technical direction, and ensure delivery of high-impact initiatives while protecting data privacy and system reliability.

You''ll work on scalable distributed systems, coordinate with product and security, and mentor engineers to grow into senior technical leaders, contributing to strategy and long-term

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• Experience in people management or technical leadership.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, fault tolerance, reliability.
• Experience with C++ or C and storage stacks such as Spanner or Bigtable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of approximately 10 software engineers, mentoring and growing technical leads to support an expanded team scope.
• Drive team execution on the Plumber roadmap, ensuring the delivery of high-visibility projects that represent key vice president priorities.
• Lead the multi-year Sharing Placements in Plumber initiative to support Drive’s integration into Spanner.
• Enable future-facing infrastructure capabilities for AI and Cloud, ensuring Plumber meets long-term commitments and helps define the agentic identity space.
• Resolve identified system inefficiencies and eliminate duplicate work across Plumber and Zanzibar to achieve tighter integration.

Skills

People management

Distributed systems

Low-level programming

Large-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

C++

C

Spanner

Bigtable

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a group of engineers and drive critical projects across core infrastructure. You will manage several teams, guide technical direction, and ensure delivery of high-impact initiatives while protecting data privacy and system reliability.

You''ll work on scalable distributed systems, coordinate with product and security, and mentor engineers to grow into senior technical leaders, contributing to strategy and long-term