About this role

Google is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA | Palo Alto, CA | San Bruno, CA | Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with Swift, Data Structures, iOS, NLP and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $174,000–$253,000 per year.

Role: Software Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: senior
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Mountain View, CA | Palo Alto, CA | San Bruno, CA | Sunnyvale, CA
Experience: 5+ years
Education: Bachelor's degree
Posted: Jun 12, 2026

AI Summary

Senior software engineer developing large-scale technologies across Google's products. Write and test code, lead design reviews, review peers' work, and debug system issues. Requires 5+ years programming in Objective-C/Swift/C++, 3+ years iOS development, and 3+ years launching software products.

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Job description

from Google careers

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.

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

US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

Write and test 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.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience programming in Objective-C, Swift, or C++.
3 years of experience with iOS application development.
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with large-scale application design and architecture.