**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in Java or Kotlin languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 8 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 5 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**:
- Experience in developing infrastructure or making contributions to a code base.
- Experience working with Spring Boot.
- Passion for API design and for building infrastructure.
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.
Our team works on the infrastructure for building Java and Kotlin services that seamlessly integrate with Google's unique infrastructure. This infrastructure is used by thousands of Google developers to build products serving billions of users worldwide.As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and manage this growing team driving technical excellence and empowering Google to build amazing products.
**Responsibilities**:
- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
- Design, implement, extend, and support the infrastructure for building services using Kotlin and Java.
- Collaborate with teammates across the organization to deliver infrastructure improvements.
- Triage system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations and quality.
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