Engineering Manager, Information Retrieval

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 in a leadership role (e.g., technical leadership or people management, supervision, or team leadership).
• 3 years of experience building tools that improve development velocity, code quality, or code health.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on Agile teams, using agile tracking, and process management tools.
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in one or more scripting and programming languages (Java, Python, Go) and CI/CD build tools.
• Understanding of SOAP, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally to define the technical direction, align the agenda, and transform the web indexing system to support the web processing needs across Google.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support the critical customer investment and provide sustainable web processing solutions on top of IR stack.
• Build and manage a team of software engineers who build solutions to address critical problems for web and media data customers.