Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Google Photos
Google · Sydney NSW, Australia
About this role
Google is hiring a senior-level Technical Lead in the software engineering function based in Sydney NSW, Australia. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, C and roughly 8+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Technical Lead
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sydney NSW, Australia
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Jul 3, 2026
Job description
from Google careersLike 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.
Our video editing backend team is brand new, as we are starting to leverage the power of Gemini in the video space.
Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.
Responsibilities
- Technical leadership - define and influence technical direction and long-term strategy in conjunction with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping the team make balanced tradeoffs, and prioritize engineering excellence investments in a systemic way.
- People management - formal career management and coaching to help your team grow in directions that are exciting to them. We can tailor team size and characteristics to match your experience, strengths and interests.
- People management - formal career management and coaching to help your team grow in directions that are exciting to them. We can tailor team size and characteristics to match your experience, strengths and interests.
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 technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
- 5 years of experience building full stack solutions, platforms or infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 3 years of experience working in a changing organization.
- 3 years of experience in designing, maintaining, and improving engineering systems.