Software Engineering Manager II, Big Query, Google Cloud
at Alphabet
Posted 9 hours ago
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- Compensation
- $197,000 – $291,000 USD
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- Not specified
- Country
- United States
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Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on BigQuery metadata services, building scalable, high-performance data systems. Set team priorities, define the midterm technical roadmap, and guide the technical strategy for SQL query processing at scale. Drive cross-team collaboration across areas like information retrieval, distributed computing, and large-scale system design, and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites. This role combines technical leadership with people management to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade metadata services for Google Cloud customers.
Software Engineering Manager II, Big Query, Google Cloud
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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 a technical leadership role, overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
- 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
- Experience in developing query processing engines for a SQL relational database or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in distributed computing.
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.
In this role, you will build and operate the scalable, reliable, and high-performance metadata services that underpin all BigQuery operations. This team's core mission is to manage metadata for all BigQuery services and managed data sources at scale. You will be responsible for reliably storing, replicating, and efficiently resolving this metadata while ensuring high performance, enterprise-grade features and a reduced operational burden.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision making across teams.
- Set clear expectations with individuals based on level, role, and alignment to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development, provide feedback, and coach.
- Develop the midterm technical roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
- Define and execute technical strategy for achieving industry-leading price and performance of SQL query processing for a variety of workloads, from Online Transaction Processing (OTLP) to hybrid transactional, problem solving multimodal queries that combine relational, graph, full-text, and vector search criteria.
- Lead a team of 7-8 engineers across query planning and execution. Own performance and reliability goals inside Spanner's distributed query engine.
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