Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability, Google Ads

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, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

In this role, you will join a team that enables digital platforms, properties, and content creators. We care for the experience that Google's customers have when using our premier advertising products. We're one of the teams for efficient, highly automated production management, and spend most of our time creating tools and refining practices to lower the cost of delivering these products and extend our remit in a sustainable way.

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.

• Drive quarterly objectives and key results planning, aligned with the annual objectives and agreed tactical projects, to ensure that each team member is contributing to team goals and providing incremental value.
• Meet regularly with each team member to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching to ensure each team member delivers on their expectations to the best of their ability.
• Ensure a smooth onboarding process for new team members through ongoing mentorship and up-to-date onboarding processes/tools.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, foster in a collaborative and inclusive environment. Guide engineers through the full software development lifecycle. Prioritize professional growth for team members, providing opportunities for learning and career advancement.