Engineering Manager, Plumber

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.

Authorization is a key component, deep inside many user-facing product calls (e.g. YouTube, Workspace), serving millions of QPS and managing several petabytes of data. Within Authorization, Plumber specifically supports the indexing of ACLs so that searches can be ACL-aware.

The criticality of our systems is what makes this team so interesting: in most interactions that people have with Google products, there is an ACL check or search buried in the stack. Our availability is necessary for these products to function, and our correctness is necessary to guarantee data protection and what privacy customers expect from Google.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Address system resilience with new client requirements, expand to AI and Cloud use cases, and deepen Workspace engagements.
• Enable AI and Cloud future-facing infrastructure needs: ensure that Plumber can meet current and future Cloud commitments and participate in defining the agentic identity problem space.
• Improve system reliability and rationalize the integration with Zanzibar and UDCS ACL components.
• Collaborate with other leads within Authorization as well as driving efforts with ST-Spanner, Drive, Cloud, and storage ecosystem components.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience designing and implementing information retrieval systems (e.g., search engines, indexing, or ranking systems).
• Experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience one or more of the following: Pod, Spanner, Bigtable, or Flume.