Engineering Manager, Android Application Safety

• 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 or a team leadership role.

• Experience in designing and launching large-scale distributed infrastructure or frontend tooling.
• Experience managing software engineering teams.
• Experience with anti-abuse and safety role.

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.

The Android Application Safety team is dedicated to protecting android devices from malware, privacy violations, and content abuse. By leveraging AI and building infrastructure, the team identifies and addresses malicious code, harmful developers, and inappropriate content to ensure a secure android ecosystem, while ensuring a delightful experience for good developers.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

• Manage the evolution of our review platform, empowering thousands of human reviewers to safeguard the Android app ecosystem.
• Establish collaborative partnerships with technical leads and leaders across global sites and product areas to define a goal, direction, and priorities.
• Architect the development of user-centric tools and a scalable enforcement infrastructure that redefines the human review process. Inovate strategies to unlock significant operational efficiencies in our review processes while simultaneously elevating the android developer experience.
• Collaborate with vertical teams on detection and enforcement strategies, proactively anticipating adversarial adaptations to maintain platform integrity. Oversee teams building and maintaining infrastructure and detection mechanisms.
• Guide engineering team execution. Mentor and develop junior engineers careers and skills. Attract and retain talent in our field.
  

• 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 or a team leadership role.