Software Engineer Manager, Infrastructure, Geo Auto

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits (401k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google Seattle is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Infrastructure, Geo Auto. You will lead engineers across teams, directing the mission-critical pipelines powering routing, navigation, and automotive solutions.

The role emphasizes managing large-scale data infrastructure, latency-sensitive services, and cross-team collaboration in a global context. Ideal candidates blend software architecture with people leadership, delivering on strategic initiatives while coaching engineers toward

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop an engineering team, staffing, career growth and high-performance environment.
• Own strategy, scoping, and outcomes for modernizing data delivery infrastructure.
• Accelerate data pipeline cadence to daily releases and manage high-QPS, low-latency servers.
• Guide architecture through ambiguity by breaking down large-scale data/infrastructure challenges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align roadmaps and power foundational data infrastructure.

Skills

Software development

Large-scale infra

Technical leadership

People management

Compute/storage/hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Software Engineer Manager, Infrastructure, Geo Auto

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Google Seattle, WA, USA

In most instances, this position requires in‑person interviews as part of the hiring process. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/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
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

• 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.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, data processing pipelines, and serving infrastructure.
• Experience leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline engineering workflows, optimize code delivery, and solve system architecture challenges.

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.

As a part of the Route Data team, you will own the mission-critical pipelines and infrastructure powering Google’s routing, navigation, and automotive solutions, acting as a vital bridge between map data and navigation systems.

You will focus on three core pillars: managing pipelines to generate routing graphs for online, offline, and in-vehicle navigation; maintaining high-QPS, low-latency serving layers for real-time speeds, incidents, and road closures; and driving pipeline latency down to achieve hyper-fresh data releases.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

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

• Manage and develop an engineering team, manage staffing, support career growth and high-performance environment.
• Own the strategy, scoping, and outcomes for modernizing data delivery infrastructure.
• Accelerate data pipeline cadence to achieve daily releases and manage high-query-per-second (QPS), low-latency dynamic data servers.
• Direct the team through architectural ambiguity by breaking down complex, large-scale data and infrastructure challenges into incremental technical milestones.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to align shared roadmaps, streamline data pathways, and power foundational data infrastructure.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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