manager software engineering Engineering Manager hybrid Bachelor's · Posted Jun 9, 2026

Skills

Distributed Systems GCP System Design Data Structures DevOps Observability Performance Optimization Automation

About this role

Google is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in Sydney NSW, Australia. The posting calls out experience with Distributed Systems, GCP, System Design, Data Structures. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role: Engineering Manager
Function: software engineering
Level: manager
Track: hybrid
Employment: Full-time
Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
Education: Bachelor's degree
Posted: Jun 9, 2026

AI Summary

Engineering Manager leading a cross-functional SRE team managing Google Spanner's high-scale serving infrastructure handling 7+ billion QPS. Responsible for team development, program management, and technical oversight of monitoring, data integrity, and SLOs. Requires strong coding, systems design, and large-scale distributed systems expertise.

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Job description

from Google careers

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

In this role, you will drive a cross-functional team of SREs and developers in managing Spanner’s high-scale serving path, which handles over 7 billion Queries Per Second (QPS). Your role focuses on delivering Google-critical compliance, security, and observability projects while maintaining a commitment to customer centrism and service reliability. You will be responsible for people development, program management, and deep technical oversight of monitoring, data integrity, and service level objectives to ensure the continuous improvement of one of Google’s most vital services.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model.
Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
3 years of experience managing people or teams.
3 years of experience leading projects.
3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience managing and scaling high-availability, large-scale distributed systems.
Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues, paired with a sense of urgency and ownership.
Ability to lead and deliver demanding projects within rigorous timelines.
Excellent people management skills with the ability to bridge technical and cross-functional gaps.