Engineering Manager, Google Search Sports
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About the Role: Engineering Manager, Google Search Sports
As an Engineering Manager for Google Search Sports, you will lead a critical team focused on delivering the industry-leading sports experience on Google Search. This leadership role demands a blend of strong technical acumen, product influence, and the ability to manage engineers across multiple teams and locations. You will drive key initiatives, contribute to product strategy, and ensure the optimization of code and team development, making a global impact on billions of users.
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 such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
- 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 related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience in Search 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's Mission
Our Team's Mission is to deliver the industry-leading sports experience on Google Search. This is a critical leadership role that requires a blend of strong technical acumen and product influence. You will be a partner in demonstrating a product mindset and using cross-functional influence to drive key initiatives that drive sports growth. You are expected to take ownership and initiative of the charter.
In Google Search
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
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 their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
- Develop the mid-term technical goal and roadmap within the scope of your (often multiple) team(s). Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
- 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).
Key skills/competency
- Technical Leadership
- People Management
- Product Strategy
- Systems Design
- Full Stack Development
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Roadmap Development
- Performance Coaching
- Distributed Computing
- Search Infrastructure
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.
How to Get Hired at Google
- Research Google's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight experience in software development, technical leadership, and people management, aligning with Google Search Sports' needs.
- Showcase impact: Quantify achievements in large-scale system design, full-stack development, and cross-functional project leadership.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Practice data structures, algorithms, and system design relevant to Google's complex infrastructure and search technologies.
- Demonstrate leadership and product mindset: Be ready to discuss team management, conflict resolution, product strategy, and influencing cross-functional initiatives.
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