Software Engineering Manager II, Big Query, Google Cloud

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

23h • $197,000 - $291,000

About The Position

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. In this role, you will build and operate the scalable, reliable and high-performance metadata services that underpin all BigQuery operations. This team's core mission is to manage metadata for all BigQuery services and managed data sources at scale. You will be responsible for reliably storing, replicating and efficiently resolving this metadata while ensuring high performance, enterprise-grade features and a reduced operational burden. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 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 building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience in developing query processing engines for a SQL relational database or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in distributed computing.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Align strategy, processes and decision making across teams.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on level, role and alignment to the broader organization's goals.
• Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development, provide feedback and coach.
• Develop the mid-term technical roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams.
• Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Define and execute technical strategy for achieving industry leading price and performance of SQL query processing for a variety of workloads, from Online Transaction Processing (OTLP) to hybrid transactional, problem solving multimodal queries that combine relational, graph, full-text and vector search criteria.
• Lead a team of 7-8 engineers across query planning and execution.
• Own performance and reliability goals inside spanner's distributed query engine.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager