Software Engineering Manager, GBO Engineering, Agency Tooling
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end (e.g., Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases) and front-end experience (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS).
- 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 a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
- Experience with site reliability engineering, information security, or DevOps practices.
- Experience building and managing teams of engineers.
- Experience leading or designing web apps and data infrastructure in a startup environment.
- Experience with API design, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
About the job
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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.
Global Business and Operations (GBO) Engineering is an embedded product and engineering team within Google’s Ad sales organization (Global Business and Operations). We build consumer-grade internal and external tooling for sales, marketing and service teams. In this role, you will be responsible for internal and external platforms that support sales and marketing teams to run events, deliver professional services, manage large, commercial deals with ads customers, power learning experiences, and more. These tools are part of a cohesive suite of tools that power the day-to-day workflows of Googlers in sales and marketing and meaningfully drive the business.
The Global Business Organization (GBO) is the engine that powers Google’s full ecosystem of products and services to help customers and partners succeed and grow. GBO includes the commercial arms of Ads sellers, business development teams, and customer services and support, as well as overlay programs that enable coordinated engagement with Google's most complex and important customers and partners.Responsibilities
- Lead, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain features for a new agency platform, built on Google infrastructure using Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript.
- Work with technologies like Gemini for agentic features, Spanner for databases, Protocol Buffers for APIs, and Google Cloud Platform services.
- Write and review technical design documents and contribute to code reviews, maintaining standards for code quality, testing, and system performance.
- Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Mentor and assist with hiring for engineers through code reviews and design docs.
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