Staff Software Engineer, Android Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Drive application and mobile infrastructure and quality as a platform to improve consistency, scalability, and developer velocity.
• Lead engineering efforts to eliminate crashes, improve state-sync latency, and resolve functional detractors.
• Monitor and improve application latency, memory footprint, crash rates, and crash-free user rates.
• Guide migration to the Google Home Platform and deprecate legacy systems.
• Oversee deployment pipelines, build and release flags, and on-call operations.
• Move the organization toward automated, self-service infrastructure delivery for vertical teams and major launches.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Eight years of software development experience.
• Five years of experience testing and launching software products focused on Android systems or Android architecture.
• Five years of full-stack development experience across back-end Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases and front-end JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Three years of software design and architecture experience.
• Preferred: Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience serving as a technical lead and architect, setting architectural direction, and mentoring senior engineers across multiple work streams.
• Experience managing complex system health issues, app reliability, and large-scale technical migrations.
• Experience implementing automated regression testing.
• Strong product sense and interest in smart-home technologies, IoT, Matter, Thread, BLE, and user satisfaction.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and improving engineering velocity through infrastructure automation.

Benefits

• US base salary of $207000 - $300000 plus a 20% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
• Work focuses on the Google Home ecosystem, including Core Mobile, Smart Displays, and Cross-Surfaces.