Android Tech Lead & Principal Engineer, Scalable Systems

Meta; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks a principal engineer to lead Android efforts across mobile and web platforms, shaping long-term technical roadmaps and guiding cross-functional collaboration. The role emphasizes driving core architecture decisions, mentoring teams, and partnering with executives to deliver scalable solutions for billions of users.

You will own performance, reliability, and velocity while navigating complex trade-offs and fostering innovation across product teams and researchers.

Qualifications

• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission.
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD.
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail.
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies.
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization.
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas.
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

PhD (optional)

Tools

Android SDK

Java

Job description

Meta seeks a principal engineer to lead Android efforts across mobile and web platforms, shaping long-term technical roadmaps and guiding cross-functional collaboration. The role emphasizes driving core architecture decisions, mentoring teams, and partnering with executives to deliver scalable solutions for billions of users.

You will own performance, reliability, and velocity while navigating complex trade-offs and fostering innovation across product teams and researchers.