Senior Software Engineer

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Minimum qualifications:

• 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.
• 5 years of experience in Android development.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with Kotlin/Java.
• Experience with Android internals.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance the core framework and its underlying technical infrastructure, ensuring security, efficiency, and adherence to privacy principles.
• Facilitate seamless integration of components with the Android ecosystem, and implement technical controls to enforce communication policies and prevent unintended data leakage.
• Develop and integrate methods for logging privacy-safe telemetry and debug information from isolated services through approved channels, without violating network isolation principles.
• Contribute to the implementation of UI for consent dialogues or browse data related to privacy-preserving features. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment.
• Contribute to the development of documentation, guides, and best practices related to the framework, ensuring clear communication and knowledge transfer across the organization.