Software Engineer Manager II, Home Infrastructure
Google · London, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 24 Oct 2026.
Overview
As a Software Engineering Manager, you guide both strategy and execution to align with the company’s broader goals. You set team priorities, shape mid-term technical direction, and oversee the roadmap for scalable systems. You lead architecture decisions, review code, and coach engineers to achieve high-quality delivery. You operate across teams and locations to drive impact in AI-enabled health and home platforms, balancing technical excellence with people leadership.
Responsibilities
- Set team priorities aligned with organizational goals
- Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams
- Set expectations for individuals and provide performance coaching
- Develop mid-term technical direction and roadmap; evolve it with future infrastructure needs
- Design, guide, and vet system designs; write code to solve complex problems
- Review others’ code to ensure best practices, quality, and efficiency
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of software development experience
- 3 years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or related compute/storage technologies
- 3 years in a technical leadership role
- 2 years in a people management or team leadership role
- leadership and people management
- coaching and feedback
- cross-functional collaboration
- large-scale infrastructure
- distributed systems
- systems design
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