Software Engineer Manager, Node Platform Infrastructure

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, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• 3 years of experience with embedded operating systems.
• Experience in C++ or Go development,
  Linux Internals, and Systems Infrastructure.

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 the Google development and production environment.
• Experience working with customers.
  
• Ability to work effectively at both the big-picture level and deep in the nitty-gritty-details.
  
• Passion for building large-scale distributed systems in the infrastructure technical space.
  

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.

Node Platform owns the services that deploy, protect, configure, and schedule the foundational layers of software, including firmware, operating systems, and the components underlying Borg and Google Cloud Platform, for Google’s planet-scale fleet of production machines. We install over 50 million machines per year and push over 3 billion software updates a year, of which over 100 million require draining, updating, and rebooting machines while maintaining minimal user impact.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Guide a dedicated team in designing, prototyping, implementing, and testing APIs and large-scale distributed backend systems for the Node Platform.
• Manage the systems responsible for bringing up Google's production servers, deploying and configuring Node Software across the production fleet, and facilitating machine repairs.
• Collaborate closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to proactively maintain the quality and performance of the infrastructure.
• Collect requirements from various stakeholders (component maintainers, service owners, release coordinators) and lead the team to develop innovative tools and solutions that simplify their work and improve key metrics.
• Play a crucial role in deploying new custom Google hardware and managing all phases of the machine fleet life-cycle, from initial setup to repairs and decommissioning.