Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, 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 a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in enterprise storage servers, performance analysis, reliability engineering, and virtualization/acceleration.

• Experience in storage software stack, such as system utilities, file systems, device drivers, and controller firmware.

• Experience in secure fleet management of servers and components.

• Experience in storage devices and interfaces (e.g., HDD, SSD, NAS, SATA, SAS, and NVMe).

• Experience with software engineering practices, including design review, release management, test automation, quality assurance, and project management.

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.

Platforms Storage teams design and build solutions for all of Google's services, including Gemini AI training data, YouTube videos, Web Search, Google Cloud virtual machines, Google Photos, and Android Play Store, all ultimately reside securely on storage devices and servers built by Platforms Storage teams.

In this role, you will lead Software Engineering teams working with cross-functional and technology partners to develop storage solutions that are impactful across Google's services. You will also develop and maintain the storage solutions with great performance and huge capacity to streamline the operational workflows in the data centers for better efficiency.

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 a team responsible for the software stack to operate storage devices and servers in the Google data centers to advance storage technologies and support broader applications.

• Drive all aspects of engineering work including requirements definition, design, implementation, integration, test, release, monitoring, and sustaining.

• Discover opportunities for improvements in programs and workflows for better productivity and quality, and help the teams to create and deploy the improvement plans.

• Define a team structure, develop skills, offer mentorship, and recruit new members, to cultivate a growth mindset culture and grow the team.

• Influence executive decisions, collaborate with internal and external partners, define and implement the best known practices.