Software Engineering Manager, Child Safety

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with software development in one or more of the following programming languages: Go, C++, Java.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in managing a software engineering team.- Familiarity with software development life-cycle.- Ability to manage ambiguous and open-ended problems.

**About the job**:
Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way 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 Child Safety team aims at removing Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAM) online. Partnering closely with Trust and Safety, the Special Victims Investigation Group, and other Google teams, we detect and report CSAM to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Many of these reports lead to rescues every day.

In this role, you will develop cutting-edge technology to combat online abuse and create solutions with tangible, real-world impact. You will help create a safer world by preventing abuse and exploitation of children across Google products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the design development, and deployment of systems for detecting and combating CSAM and other forms of child endangerment, including heuristics, machine learning, data analysis, and metrics-driven technologies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally, build strong relationships with engineers and product managers across Google to integrate abuse-fighting safeguards into Google products.
- Prioritize safety and user trust, balance the need for responsible content moderation, ensure user privacy and trust, understand the sensitive nature of this domain.
- Support external partners, develop solutions and technologies that support NGOs and other organizations dedicated to the prevention of child exploitation, working to extend the reach and effectiveness of these efforts.
- Lead a team of Software Engineers focused on this critical mission, providing mentorship, guidance, and fostering an environment of innovation.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.