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Google seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead engineers developing agentic AI for security and guide technical strategy for its security harness. The role oversees large-scale project deployment, product strategy, and team development, while coordinating with engineering, product management, data science, and security teams. The manager will drive execution and foster innovation, experimentation, and quality for Google’s AI-driven cybersecurity platform.
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info_outline XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience with software development.
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7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
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5 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
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5 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
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5 years of experience in a people management, or team leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
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5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
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Experience in building and deploying Agentic AI systems.
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Experience in highly scalable and available distributed systems, cloud services or data platforms.
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Understanding of security related areas.
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Excellent action and execution skills.
About the job 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.
in this role, you will shape the technical goal and strategy, drive rapid and agile execution, and foster a culture of innovation, experimentation and uncompromising quality. Your leadership will ensure Google Unified Security and Threat Operations (GUSTO) AI becomes a leading agentic platform for the next wave of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers focused on developing and deploying next-generation agentic AI for security that will power the Google's Agentic SecOps offering.
- Drive the technical goal and strategy for the security harness ensuring alignment with the broader security teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams along with product management, data science, and security engineering, to define product requirements, and roadmaps, and deliver high-impact features.
- Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation, testing, and deployment of robust and scalable AI-driven agentic security solutions.
- Foster a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement, staying abreast of the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,182 open Software Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$262–364K/yr
- California median$207–300K/yr205 salary ranges
- US median$143–262K/yr1,003 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $313K, is 23% above the California median midpoint ($254K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 241 open Software Engineering Manager jobs in California and 1,182 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Software Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (1,077 postings).
- Education
- 421 of the 1,182 open Software Engineering Manager jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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