Software Engineering Manager II - Lead Scalable Distributed Systems

Socket.dev; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in Kirkland, WA, to lead and mentor engineers across multiple teams, guiding projects from scoping to production. You will help set product strategy, manage a large budget, and oversee deployment of large-scale initiatives across sites worldwide.

You will champion technical excellence, drive architectural decisions, and ensure reliable systems for Google’s infrastructure.

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.

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.

Skills

Software development experience

Large-scale infrastructure

Technical leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Software Engineering Manager in Kirkland, WA, to lead and mentor engineers across multiple teams, guiding projects from scoping to production. You will help set product strategy, manage a large budget, and oversee deployment of large-scale initiatives across sites worldwide.

You will champion technical excellence, drive architectural decisions, and ensure reliable systems for Google’s infrastructure.