Software Engineer Manager II, Slicer

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

About the job

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.

Slicer is Google’s autosharder: foundational infrastructure that enables Googlers to build fast, efficient systems by partitioning key-value-structured application state over compute infrastructure tasks so that it can be cached in memory.

Today, Slicer is the heartbeat of Google’s infrastructure, continuing to grow its impact by balancing +15 Billion requests per second for hundreds of teams across all Product Areas. It routes critical traffic for major Google services—including every 'Ok Google' request—and serves as a foundational dependency for the vast majority of our top Cloud products.

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and solve broad and ambiguous challenges that impact sharding and load-balancing at Google. Turn these challenges into strategic opportunities and actionable plans.
• Work closely with team members to deliver improvements to Slicer as a product and Slicer's infrastructure (from scoping to full production landing).
• Drive the existing long-term technical goal, strategy, and roadmap for Slicer. Collaborate with technical leads in Slicer and the wider Caching organization to evolve the technical goal as necessary.
• Work with customer teams across multiple product areas to understand requirements for sliced services and applications.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers to design and implement highly available, scalable, and reliable services.