Software Engineer, RCS Video, Google Messages

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation (20 days/year)

Sick time (40 hours/year)

Maternity leave (short-term disability

Baby bonding leave

Holidays 13 days/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure, to join the RCS Video Chat Engineering Infrastructure and Operations team. You will help build scalable tooling, automate quality tracking, and ensure smooth development, test, and release cycles across product teams.

You will collaborate with engineering partners to improve code health, testing, and maintainability while enabling rapid growth of Google’s software at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of software development experience or 1 year with an advanced degree.
• 2 years building developer tools (compilers, automated releases, code design and testing).
• Master's or PhD preferred; data structures/algorithms experience beneficial.
• Accessible technologies experience beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Review code for best practices and quality.
• Contribute to documentation and content updates.
• Triage issues and debug across hardware, network, or service operations.

Skills

Software development

Design reviews

Code quality

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Advanced degree (desirable)

Tools

Developer tools

Testing frameworks

Job description

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience building developer tools (e.g., compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, test automation frameworks).

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

About The Job

A line of code can be many things - an amazing feature, a beautiful UI, a transformative algorithm. The faster this line of code reaches millions of users, the sooner it impacts their lives. As a Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure, you will be at the heart of Google's engineering process building software that empowers engineering teams to develop and deliver high quality products quickly. We are focused on solving the hardest, most interesting challenges of developing software at scale without sacrificing stability, quality, velocity or code health.

We ensure Google's success by partnering with engineering teams and developing scalable tools and infrastructure that help engineers develop, test, debug and release software quickly. We impact thousands of Googlers and billions of users by increasing the pace of product development and ensuring our products are thoroughly tested. We are advocates for code health, testability, maintainability and best practices for development and testing.

Having access to all of Google's platforms and vast compute resources provides a unique opportunity to grow as an engineer. We typically work in small, nimble teams that collaborate on common problems across products and focus areas. As a result, the exposure to this broad set of problems provides technical challenges as well as accelerated career growth.

The RCS Video Chat Engineering Infrastructure and Operations team is part of P&D. We focus on shipping necessary features alongside long-term investments. As a member of the team, you will automate quality tracking, ensure interoperability with partner teams, build daily tooling, and maintain customer relationships.

Android is Google's mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

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 .