Software Development Manager II, Google Cloud, AI

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with recruiting, hiring, and professional development for a team of engineers.
• Experience in the design and architecture of distributed systems.
• Experience with leading the development and execution of Cloud Software as a Service.
  
  

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.

Our mission is to provide the simplest, fastest, and most reliable path for enterprises to migrate their workloads to Google Cloud, accelerating their digital transformation journey. The team has adopted an AI-first approach, where product features and engineering productivity are centered around AI to increase delivery speed and open new opportunities for product journeys.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing engineering team. Foster a culture of innovation, psychological safety, and continuous career growth for every team member.
• Oversee the team's execution and project life-cycle, ensuring the timely and efficient delivery of high-quality, scalable features in a changing, agile environment.
• Advocate a customer-first culture by instilling the highest standards for service reliability, performance, and quality.
• Drive our AI-first strategy's evolution from both a management perspective, inspiring the team and a technical one, guiding the practical integration of AI into both our product and our internal development processes.
• Resolve technical problems inherent in a large-scale, enterprise-grade migration service, making critical architectural and technological decisions.
  
  

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