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Posted date: Apr 03, 2025
Location: Kirkland, WA
Level: Director
Estimated salary: $244,000
Range: $197,000 - $291,000
Description
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, role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance, development and provide feedback and coaching.
Develop the mid-term technical roadmap within the scope of your often multiple teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
Define and execute the technical strategy for achieving industry leading price/performance on SQL query processing for a variety of workloads, from Online Transaction Processing (OTLP) to hybrid transactional, problem-solving to multi-modal queries that combine relational, graph, full-text and vector search criteria. Lead a team of 7-8 engineers across query planning and execution. Own performance and reliability goals, inside spanner's distributed query engine.
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.
The Core Query Processing team’s mission is to support industry-leading query optimization and execution techniques with a focus on making SQL queries easier to authorize in general and improving price/performance of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP++) queries specifically. We are using trailing (e.g., customer feedback) and leading (e.g., benchmarks) indicators to continually focus on the most pressing query pain points. We also own the query-related tooling that make the Query Processing Ecosystem better.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Qualifications
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. 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.Preferred qualifications:Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.Experience in developing query processing engines for a SQL relational database, or large-scale distributed systems.Experience in distributed computing.
Extended 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. 3 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.Check out other jobs at Google.