Software Engineer Manager, Cloud Observability

Company: Google

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $207,000 - $301,000 a year

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-06-23

About this role

### 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 with data structures or algorithms and software development in one or more programming languages.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

### Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  • Experience with backend development in one or more of the following: C++, Go, Java, or gRPC.
  • Experience with observability, large-scale distributed systems or planetary-scale data systems.
  • Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), managing high-availability service infrastructure, and on-call support rotations.

## 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 pr...

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