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.

Cloud Observability develops products and services in the areas of monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and application troubleshooting. We provide the tools for thousands of Google Cloud customers to monitor and troubleshoot their applications and help increase reliability associated with their products.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead initiatives and collaborate with other Cloud teams.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + 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

• Lead and manage a strong engineering team to build alerting products and effectively deliver impact by coaching, mentoring, and helping team members grow and shape the culture of the team, promoting a team that values psychological safety.

• Lead the team to develop Service Level Objective (SLO) monitoring, application centric observability for alerting, for active usage within Cloud alerting, broader adoption within Google Cloud Platform internal teams, and help our customers manage their cloud environments.

• Collaborate with product managers and engineering leads to define the goal, strategy, and future roadmap for the team, balancing new investments with reliability and technical debt reduction.

• Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in software development.

• 5 years of experience in observability and helping developers and operators manage Cloud systems.

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.

• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

• 3 years of experience with platforms, on-call support rotation or infrastructure development, including collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.