--- title: Edu Data Governance Engineering Manager at Google description: Google is hiring for the Edu Data Governance Engineering Manager role in Mountain View, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/edu-data-governance-engineering-manager-at-google-01a1cf5b-b355-72b8-9b8e-134d09168228 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: Join Google as Edu Data Governance Engineering Manager in Mountain View, CA. Pays $207K–$300K per year. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/xbeecn.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | [Google](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/google?utm_source=ai_markdown) | | **Location** | New York, NY | | **Salary** | $207K/yr - $300K/yr | | **Posted** | Nov 12, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A- · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Google sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 9,179 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Google. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $212,000 – $254,000 a year (median $230,000). ## Description 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. In this role, you are the people manager, organizational anchor, and execution leader for Edu Data Governance. You will partner closely with relevant UTLs and TLs to guide the team providing both the foundational infrastructure keeping Edu compliant today and the cross-product area platform execution needed for Google for Education 3.0. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about [benefits at Google](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/). - Manage, coach, and grow a team of 8-10 software engineers responsible for Edu Data Governance, fostering high psychological safety, operational sustainability, and strong career development across a mixed-seniority team. - Deliver horizontal policy enforcement and enable Google educational experiences that cut across relevant product areas (e.g., Workspace, Search, Gemini, YouTube) by driving alignment, resourcing, and program delivery for Google for Education 3.0 and the Edu Terms of Service (Edu ToS). - Manage Edu's foundational data compliance, sovereignty, and storage infrastructure, balancing regulatory mandates and operational health against long-term architectural bets. ### Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in software development, including 5 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. - Experience in a people management or team leadership role. ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience managing, coaching, and growing software engineering teams including hiring, performance management, and guiding teams through organizational transitions. - Experience coaching across a wide seniority range, supporting autonomous senior ICs and TLs while hiring, onboarding, and developing early-career engineers. - Technical fluency in distributed backend systems or infrastructure engineering sufficient to evaluate trade-offs, partner with senior technical leads, and represent the team with partner product areas. - Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, including negotiating scope and dependencies with partner engineering teams, PM, PgM, and Legal/Privacy, and identifying misalignment of goals across product areas. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 8 years of experience in software development, including 5 years of experience testing and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. - 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