The Software Engineer Manager II, Slicer role at Google involves leading a team of engineers to enhance Slicer, a foundational infrastructure that supports Google's services by managing key-value-structured application states. This position requires both technical expertise and leadership skills to drive project goals and contribute to product strategy. The Slicer team plays a crucial role in balancing billions of requests per second, impacting various Google products. The manager will oversee the deployment of large-scale projects and mentor engineers to ensure the development of reliable services.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.

• Identify, scope, and solve broad and ambiguous challenges that impact sharding and load-balancing at Google.
• Work closely with team members to deliver improvements to Slicer as a product and Slicer's infrastructure.
• Drive the existing long-term technical goal, strategy, and roadmap for Slicer.
• Collaborate with technical leads in Slicer and the wider Caching organization.
• Hire, coach, and mentor engineers to design and implement highly available, scalable, and reliable services.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.