Software Engineering Manager, Identity Core Credentials

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 Identity Core Credentials team owns the backend infrastructure for management of external user credentials and authorization grants.

The team is responsible for the usability, verification, and life cycle management of credentials and grants for every Google user account. We also manage the storage and caching infrastructure for billions of user credentials and associated user data. Our system enables sign-in and every signed-in request to Google from first and third party applications and services. Our systems are also responsible for safe access, hence security and privacy are also integrated deeply in all the work that the team does.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 10 engineers and help them with career growth and planning.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure the team delivers infrastructure solutions that can scale to the global requirements while meeting the standards of high reliability and security.
• Collaborate with a variety of partners, stakeholders and cross-functional partners within the organization and outside on the different projects the team is involved in.
• Build relationships with internal customers of the team to scope projects and the Identity solutions and bridge gaps in our offerings.
• Reduce road map ambiguity, increasing your team’s execution velocity, being the enabler for your team to successfully deliver on the organization's technical direction. Help define the charter for the team for the next few years.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in in one or more programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, Objective-C).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing or launching software products.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role, overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision or team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 3 years of technical leadership experience driving large cross-product projects, driving strategy and creating roadmaps.
• Experience in developer productivity, building reliable infrastructure products that are scalable and performant with clean, flexible APIs.
• Experience on server projects and managing highly available mission-critical services.
• Experience in security or identity systems.