Software Engineer Manager, Google Cloud, API Proxy

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$207,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As a Software Engineering Manager, you provide technical leadership for major projects while managing and developing a team of engineers. You oversee project goals, contribute to product strategy, and help engineers deliver and optimize their work. The role involves managing engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget, and deployment of large-scale projects across international sites. The position is within Google Cloud’s One Platform ecosystem. One Platform is Google’s standard API platform for creating, managing, securing, and consuming APIs and services across organizations. It is used by Google APIs, Cloud APIs, Cloud Endpoints, and API Gateway, and supports features including authentication, authorization, auditing, rate limiting, analytics, billing, logging, monitoring, and policy enforcement. API proxies such as External Security Facility (ESF) and Cloud ESF serve as the front end for One Platform APIs, providing policy enforcement, transcoding, observability, and other control-plane functionality. Google Cloud delivers enterprise-grade solutions and tools to customers in more than 200 countries and territories. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The listed U.S. compensation is $207,000–$300,000 USD, plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

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.
2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role managing direct reports.
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
Experience in cloud infrastructure, such as compute, storage, or networking.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for the core API Proxy/ESF runtime, reliability, security, OneMCP, and other top-priority initiatives within the One Platform ecosystem.
Oversee end-to-end project execution, including priorities, timelines, and resource allocation, to ensure predictable, high-quality releases.
Identify and mitigate execution risks and dependencies.
Partner with the User Experience Tech Lead (UTL) and Product Manager (PM) to define product features, requirements, and success metrics.
Collaborate with One Platform teams, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and key infrastructure teams.
Engage with internal customer teams across Google to understand API-serving and proxy needs and gather feedback.
Communicate team goals, project status, risks, and impact to leadership and stakeholders.
Manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget, and deployment of large-scale projects across international sites.