Software Engineer Manager II, Privacy, Safety, and Security

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

Minimum 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience building LLM applications, multi-agent workflows, tool-use harnesses or automated evaluation pipelines and agentic code quality.
• Familiarity with privacy/safety engineering, software security including common weakness enumerations (CWEs), sanitizers, vulnerability patching, or production compliance (BCID, policy enforcement).

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 Privacy, Safety, and Security (PSS) team builds foundational technologies, infrastructure, and frameworks that protect billions of users, safeguard data, and defend global digital ecosystems. As a central engineering and governance pillar, PSS partners across product areas to engineer security-by-design solutions, automate threat detection, advance cryptographic and privacy-preserving architectures, and ensure compliance with global regulatory standards.

In this role, you will be a leader who loves building alongside their team, turning ambitious ideas into working prototypes while coaching and growing the next generation of technical leaders.

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

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.

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 .