Software Engineering Manager, Engineering Productivity

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.

The GGN Engineering Productivity team's mission is to provide common tooling to support all of Google Global Infrastructure (GGI) Engineering in testing, testbeds, and labs. We provide testing as a service to GGN for functional and integration testing, offer resource reservation and isolation for lab environments, maintain all necessary test execution infrastructure, and work with external teams to develop cohesive test strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the new Bengaluru site for the Google Global Networking (GGN) Engineering Productivity organization, delivering productivity tools and infrastructure for GGN organization.
• Build/manage a high-performing team of Engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating an effective organizational structure fostering delegation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Achieve business goals for the team, ensuring alignment with the global GGN Engineering Productivity mission and GGN priorities. Establish strong partnerships and influence across organizations and geo, particularly within GGN and with teams in India. Set and align stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure sound technical direction for projects undertaken by Bengaluru team. Guide, vet system designs, review code, and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate closely with teams in other sites (Sunnyvale, Cambridge) to ensure consistency and leverage of tooling and infrastructure. Contribute to documentation and educational content.