Software Engineer Manager II, Infrastructure

Google

Sunnyvale, California, United StatesFull-time$207,000–$300,000Posted Oct 27, 2026

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed

systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or

hardware architecture.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 4 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
  • Development experience in C++, Go, or Python.
  • Experience in Stubby, Chubby, Linux, Networking, Distributed Computing,

multithreaded programming.

  • Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

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.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Use a deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs and C++, and abilities

to leverage rich and powerful infrastructure tools such as Chubby, Spanner

and Compute infrastructure, design and implement solutions that make the load

balancing (LB) configuration infra systems more reliable, more scalable,

easier to use and feature rich.

  • Collaborate with other members of the team, and stakeholders such as SRE and

partner teams that use the config infra system (or would like to start using

it) to collect requirements, to get buy-in for designs, plan execution and

rollout of changes.

  • Participate in team activities including reviewing code changes made by

others, support for users with questions or issues, bug fixes, support our

partner SRE in addressing issues in production, support hiring efforts, etc.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement reliable, scalable, and feature-rich load-balancing configuration infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with team members, SREs, and partner teams to gather requirements, align on designs, and plan rollouts.
  • Review code, support users and production operations, fix bugs, and contribute to hiring.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 8 years of software development experience.
  • At least 3 years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, networks, compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
  • At least 3 years in a technical leadership role and 2 years in people management or team leadership.
  • Preferred: experience with C++, Go, or Python; distributed systems; networking; Linux; concurrency; multithreading; and synchronization.

Benefits

  • 20% target bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Skills mentioned

C++GoDistributed SystemsSystem DesignLinuxConcurrencyMultithreadingGoogle CloudTCP/IPREST APIs

About Google

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