Engineering Manager, WAN Core

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 technical leadership and people management.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year of experience in systems engineering (e.g., systems integration, systems testing).
• Experience with networking technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, MPI, RPC, cluster computing, distributed applications etc.).
• Experience in Network Infrastructure and Software-Defined Networking.

About The Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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 WAN Core team designs, builds, and operates Google's global private WAN network, AlphaNet, which has been growing significantly in five years. Join us to deliver the networking that enables all Google’s technical infrastructure.

The AI and Infrastructure team works on the world’s toughest problems, redefining what’s possible and the possible easy. We empower Google customers by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Googler Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We’re at the center of amazing work at Google by being the “flywheel” that enables our advanced AI models, delivers computing power across global services, and offers platforms that developers use to build services.

In AI and Infrastructure, we shape the future of hyperscale computing by inventing and creating world-leading future technology, and drive global impact by contributing to Google infrastructure, from software to hardware (including building Vertex AI for Google Cloud). We work on complex technologies at a global scale with key players in the AI and systems space. Join a team of talented individuals who not only work together to keep data centers operating efficiently but also create a legacy of driving innovation by building some of the most complex systems technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high performing team of Software Engineers.
• Provide technical guidance to the team as they design, develop, integrate and test the features for AlphaNet availability, scaling, NPIs.
• Prioritize work and ensure that incremental progress is made even if the problems are difficult to solve in a short period of time.
• Help team members and partner teams understand the broader context, and solve the problems on time.
• Experience in software engineering, and understand, how to handle errors, write tests, manage concurrency, etc.