Engineering Manager, Consensus

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, C++ and Distributed Systems.
• 5 years of experience in a people management role within software engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience with system architecture.
• Experience with distributed systems and Google production infrastructure will be an advantage.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers, provide active mentorship, coaching, and career guidance to both junior and senior engineers, fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
• Guide, vet, and drive system architectures and strategies for Google's core infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to proactively triage, root-cause, and resolve complex production or system issues, driving systemic reliability and maintainability improvements throughout the stack.
• Own strategic outcomes for multiple high-impact projects from the consensus portfolio, planning resources, establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), navigate ambiguity, and optimize project velocity to deliver against long-term goals.