Software Engineering Manager, GBO Engineering, Agency Tooling

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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.

Global Business and Operations (GBO) Engineering is an embedded product and engineering team within Google’s Ad sales organization. We build consumer-grade internal and external tooling for sales, marketing and service teams.

As the engineering leader for this new team, you will be instrumental in defining the technical goal, building the team from the ground up, and driving the strategic execution of a brand new platform. You will empower and guide a high-performing team of engineers to architect and develop robust, production-grade web applications and services on Google infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Guide architectural goal and drive delivery of scalable, reliable features. Oversee systems built on Google infrastructure (written in languages including Java, Kotlin, TypeScript), steering technical direction and ensuring operational excellence.
• Oversee integration of core technologies, including Gemini for agentic features, Spanner, Protocol Buffers and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Ensure team makes sound architectural choices aligned with business goals.
• Iterate high standards for system performance, testing and code quality. Review critical technical design documents/architecture proposals, providing high-level guidance/code reviews for critical-path components.
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX, etc to define product roadmaps, prioritize initiatives, and translate business requirements into technical strategies.
• Build new team, manage performance, provide ongoing mentorship, and actively guide career development.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end (e.g., Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases) and front-end experience (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with site reliability engineering, information security, or developer operation practices.
• Experience leading or designing web apps and data infrastructure in a startup environment.
• Experience with API design, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
• Experience building and managing teams of engineers while partnering with Product and UX on product roadmap planning and delivery.