Staff Software Engineer, App Observability and Performance Data
Company: Google
Location: San Jose, CA
Salary: $207,000 - $300,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-19
About this role
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience testing, launching software products, and leading performance optimization.
- 5 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, high-throughput data processing systems, or storage systems.
- 3 years of experience with software design, architecture, and debugging tools.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional projects with partners (e.g., Program Management (PgM), PM, UX, and UX Researcher (UXR)).
- Experience with Kotlin, data analytics, SQL, and customer engagement.
## 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 ...