Google Looking For Engineering Manager, Infrastructure, Feature and Product Building Blocks at Chicago, IL Full Time

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Chicago, IL, USA.

Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

5 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 strategic projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role

Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure and/or distributed systems

3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization

About the job

Like Google’s own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer (SWE) goes way beyond just Search. SWE 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 SWE Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. SWE 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.

The Feature and Product Building Blocks team’s mission is to build a modern, cohesive platform that delivers meaningful impact at scale for Search features, products, and infrastructure.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary range between $198,000 – $212,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation range for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

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

Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

Triage product or system issues and debug, track, or resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.