Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com Job in Mountain View, California US
Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com - Mountain View
This position is based in Mountain View, CA.
The area: Engineering, Engineering Management
Google.com Engineering makes Google's services fast and reliable for hundreds of millions of users. This mission critical team (also known as Site Reliability Engineering) combines software development, networking, and systems engineering expertise to build and run large scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure. We hire creative engineers and technology enthusiasts who enjoy being challenged by problems of scale and complexity, with a strong desire to make services better for users. We routinely solve software and systems issues ranging from distributed change propagation on live serving systems, to designing and deploying intelligent load balancing systems for the largest user-facing services in the world. Our teams come from diverse backgrounds, and we are actively seeking new team members to bring fresh perspective to solving problems, along with the technical and soft skills needed to keep Google's services growing and reliable.
The role: Engineering Manager/Director, Google.com
Google.com engineering, put simply, makes sure that Google's premier services always work and are always fast. The team takes classic "ops" problems and solves them with engineering and software - not humans and dashboards - yielding very high uptime (at very large scale!) with surprisingly small groups of software, network and system engineers. In Google.com, you will be part of one of the most demanding, rewarding and high-profile divisions within Google.
An ideal candidate for this role will have prior experience managing multiple user-facing services and the teams which developed and operated them, will be capable of technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems and storage yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with Google's executive team.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end availability and performance of Google's most visible services and properties.
- Ensure a great, almost-100% reliable experience for Google users around the globe while simultaneously enabling a rapid pace of innovation and change in the services
Minimum Qualifications:
- BA/BS in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, 4 years of relevant work experience).
- 5 years of relevant work experience including hands-on technical management experience.
- Expertise in several of: C, C++, Java, sh/PERL/Python, UNIX/Linux use internals, IP networking network devices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS/PhD in a related field.
- 12 years of relevant hands-on technical management experience of software developers, systems administrators/architects, as well as a record of individual technical achievement.
- Prior experience managing multiple user-facing services and the teams which developed and operated them.
- Capable of technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems and storage yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with Google's executive team.
- Comfortable recruiting and managing a team of very bright, experienced engineers on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered.
- That rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically astute teams across the company.
