**Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a technical field, or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems, and 5 years of experience managing teams. + Experience in Distributed Systems and Networking. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience in Infrastructure Systems, Networking and Performance Improvement. + Experience in C++, Java or Go. 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. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. **Responsibilities:** + Own and drive high-impact projects to extend the capabilities and improve the reliability, efficiency, performance and stability of the Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) stacks, and also be responsible for supporting and growing a team of Software Engineers working on the Google Remote Procedure Call (RPC) stacks. + Collaborate with other leads and managers across time-zones to help drive strategy and new initiatives. Customer engagement and collaboration with partners. + Lead new features for gRPC based on the needs of Google production users. + Grow technical leaders on the team, defining roadmaps, planning projects, and delivering tools and processes. + Establish a collaborative team culture focused on engineering and product excellence. Improve overall developer experience and team velocity. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.