Software Engineering Manager, Core Integrated Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (69 in Seattle

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams developing scalable backend infrastructure and secure developer tooling. You will guide project goals, mentor engineers, and drive strategy across distributed teams.

You will collaborate with security, cloud registry, and developer infrastructure groups to deliver a reliable, secure developer experience and ensure high availability across critical systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., IAM).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision role.
• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in software security compliance or developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and guide an engineering team of software engineers and tech leads.
• Architect and operate scalable backend infrastructure for large CI/CD workloads.
• Lead product and engineering strategy to drive developer adoption of unified, secure package repositories.
• Partner with security, developer infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure secure developer experience.
• Oversee service availability, on-call health, monitoring, and SLA-related goals.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

People management

Data privacy / security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering or CS

Job description

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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.

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; overseeing projects.
• 3 years of experience building software for data privacy or security (e.g., identity and access management).
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience in software security compliance, vulnerability management, or license verification within developer platforms.
• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, developer registries, or package-management ecosystems.
• Experience in performance tuning and performance optimization.
• Ability to align engineering roadmaps across multiple stakeholder teams.

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 the Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly collaborative team of engineers responsible for building and scaling Google's unified software package gateway. In this role, you will advocate the reliability, performance, and scaling of critical backend infrastructure. This is a high-visibility leadership position where you partner closely with cross-functional developer platform, security, and cloud infrastructure teams to drive secure developer package adoption. You are a people-first manager who thrives on scaling complex, high-throughput distributed systems while mentoring engineers and technical leads to do their best work.

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

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• Manage, mentor, and guide an engineering team of software engineers and technical leads, fostering technical excellence, culture, and career advancement.
• Architect and operate highly scalable, low-latency, and reliable backend infrastructure capable of supporting Google's massive developer and CI/CD workloads.
• Lead the product and engineering strategy to drive developer adoption of unified, secure package repositories across the company.
• Partner closely with developer infrastructure, cloud registry, and security organizations across Google to deliver a seamless and secure developer experience.
• Oversee service availability, on-call health, system monitoring, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) achievements to minimize operational toil and maintain a robust production environment.

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.