Software Engineer Manager II, Resource Engineering

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead capacity planning for Google Cloud Storage (GCS) across multiple teams and sites. You will drive high-throughput capacity strategies, mentor engineers, and influence product direction while managing a large engineering budget and cross-functional relationships.

You will oversee the deployment of scalable storage solutions for internal products like Gmail, Photos, Drive, and YouTube, ensuring reliability and efficiency at planet scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years in people management or team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage staffing, career growth, and high-performance bar for capacity planning.
• Own strategy and outcomes for capacity planning systems for high-throughput GCS.
• Guide teams through ambiguity and break down complex supply problems.
• Coordinate with GCS, Networking, Compute, and Data Center teams on onboarding AI/ML workloads.
• Drive automation of capacity adjudication and resource optimization.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Capacity planning

Distributed systems

Compute/storage

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience in software development.


• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.


• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.


• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.


• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.


• Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks.


• Experience mentoring executive engineers and other technical leads.


• Experience in capacity planning for complex, large-scale distributed systems.

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.

In this role, the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) provides planet scale, object storage service for external Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers and internal large-scale Google products like GMail, Photos, Drive, and YouTube. As a part of the GCS Resource Engineering team, you will build extensible software solutions that plan capacity to guarantee high service reliability and resource efficiency.

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a critical team dedicated to enabling high-throughput products and scenarios, including our Bandwidth Highway program. You will address ambiguous supply problems and ensure GCS remains the high-performance storage backbone for the next-generation of AI workloads.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Manage team staffing, career growth, and uphold a high-performance bar, while fostering an environment to build capacity planning solutions for high-throughput GCS products.


• Own the strategy, scoping, navigation, and outcomes for capacity planning systems targeting high-throughput scenarios, such as the Bandwidth Highway and Rapid Cache.


• Guide the team through ambiguity by breaking down complex challenges such as supply scarcity and dense AI zone typologies into tractable technical milestones.


• Navigate complex relationships across GCS, Networking, Compute, and Data Center teams to align supply agendas and ensure seamless on boarding for massive AI/ML workloads.


• Drive engineering efforts to automate capacity adjudication, optimize network resources, and accelerate the time required to onboard new high-throughput customers.