Senior Software Engineer, Android, Photos

Senior Software Engineer, Android, Google Photos

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Mountain View, CA

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $166,000-$244,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Google's software engineers develop 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 tackle new problems across the full‑stack as we continue to push technology forward.

We are the Android and iOS Processing and Storage team for the Google Photos app, and we own the central libraries that power one of Google’s most beloved products with a billion active users.

Our team directly influences the engineering goal for the future of the Google Photos mobile apps through navigating deep technical problems in data and app architecture. We build the critical frameworks that power every single user journey in the app, helping to bring users’ most precious moments to life.

Data is the name of the game and we do a lot with it – prefetching, caching, computing, understanding, and processing. We are deeply integrated in almost every major feature that gets launched to users.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought‑after products at Google and is looking for both client‑side (web and mobile), server‑side (search, storage, serving), and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with Android application development.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience with performance, large‑scale systems, data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience building large‑scale developer APIs (used by 100+ engineers).
• Experience with data querying (e.g., SQL) and management.

• Build out the future of the Photos Android core data layer with our talented engineering team with decades of mobile development experience.
• Implement data APIs that power all UIs and features with performance and consistency.
• Develop sufficient expertise in SQLite, mutations, metadata sync, background processing, and more to be able to lead other engineers on large‑scale projects.

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 Google's EEO Policy. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology and Engineering

Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet