Software Engineer, Primes First-Party Android Apps Observability
Google · San Francisco, California, United States · $207K–$301K/yr
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Provide technical leadership and coaching for a distributed team of engineers on high-impact projects. Design, develop, and maintain large-scale software solutions for production observability data.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of software development experience, including 5 years in Android development. Proficiency in software architecture, performance optimization, and client-side development is essential.
Benefits
Full description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience with Android application development.
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience with client-side development, enterprise software, and performance optimization.
- Experience with Android, Android libraries and Android apps.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with Kotlin, infrastructure systems, customer engagement, data analytics, SQL, and data processing.
About the job:
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
Primes is a centralized solution for monitoring and diagnosing system health used by nearly all first-party Google consumer apps. Our mission is to enable rapid shipping and learning by providing simple, integrated production observability data to all Google developers and AI agents.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
