Software Engineer, Mobile Performance
Job details
- Pay
- $174,000 – $252,000 a year
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 14, 2026
About this role
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Note
By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Jose, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of Android application development experience.
- 5 years of experience in coding with Kotlin and Java.
3 years of working experience with performance and memory.
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Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
- 5 years of experience working with two or more from the following: Android development, Machine learning, Performance Optimizations.
- 5 years of experience in one or more of the following: test automation, refactoring code, test-driven development, build infrastructure, optimizing software, debugging, building tools and testing frameworks
About the job
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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.
We're looking for engineers who are excited by having an outsized impact on the world through mobile and infrastructure development. People on our team frequently work cross-functionally and across languages, and paradigms.
In this role, you will architect and deliver cutting-edge optimization infrastructure to elevate system health metrics across all first-party application teams, directly enhancing the user experience for billions globally.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
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- Build and maintain agentic end-to-end benchmarking pipelines and diagnostic tooling to track, reproduce, and guard against performance regressions.
- Leverage AI to profile traces to diagnose memory, and cpu bottlenecks, identifying high-impact optimization opportunities.
- Improve the overall user experience by improving efficiency of applications by reducing memory, jank and execution runtimes.
- Partner closely with 1P Apps (Search, YouTube, Geo) and other Infrastructure teams to design centralized solutions.
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.