Software Engineer Manager II, Slicer

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

20 days of vacation per year

Maternity leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer Manager II, Slicer in Kirkland, WA. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers and manage projects that impact foundational infrastructure. Candidates should have significant experience in software development and technical leadership, with a focus on large-scale systems and distributed processing.

The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits including comprehensive insurance and vacation time. If you are passionate about technology and team development, Google provides an exciting environment for growth.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience in a management or team leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve challenges impacting sharding and load-balancing.
• Drive technical goals and roadmap for Slicer.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Large-scale infrastructure

Distributed systems

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree or PhD

Tools

Spanner

Caching technologies

Distributed processing

Job description

Software Engineer Manager II, Slicer

Location: Kirkland, WA, USA | Company: Google

Overview

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—with a manager, you guide the way.

Slicer is Google’s autosharder: foundational infrastructure that enables Googlers to build fast, efficient systems by partitioning key-value-structured application state over compute infrastructure tasks so that it can be cached in memory. Today, Slicer is the heartbeat of Google’s infrastructure, continuing to grow its impact by balancing more than 15 billion requests per second for hundreds of teams across all Product Areas. It routes critical traffic for major Google services—including every “Ok Google” request—and serves as a foundational dependency for the vast majority of our top Cloud products. 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.

Compensation: US: $207,000 - $301,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• 40 hours per year of sick time (increased to 69 hours per year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• 13 paid holidays per year

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience 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.
• Experience with caching, Spanner, distributed processing, system design, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and solve broad and ambiguous challenges that impact sharding and load-balancing at Google. Turn these challenges into strategic opportunities and actionable plans.
• Work closely with team members to deliver improvements to Slicer as a product and Slicer’s infrastructure (from scoping to full production landing).
• Drive the existing long-term technical goal, strategy, and roadmap for Slicer. Collaborate with technical leads in Slicer and the wider Caching organization to evolve the technical goal as necessary.
• Work with customer teams across multiple product areas to understand requirements for sliced services and applications.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers to design and implement highly available, scalable, and reliable services.

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