Staff Software Engineer, Gmail Communications and Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience within iOS or mobile development on an at-scale product feature team
  
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• Software development experience in Objective-C or Swift using operating systems or OS X frameworks.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  
• 10 years of experience as an operating systems engineer, with 5 years of experience as a team lead of a feature team.
  
• Experience in data-driven user-facing consumer product experimentation.
  
• Experience identifying inefficiencies in the engineering process and working across teams to resolve them.

About the job

Google Cloud's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. 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 Cloud's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will anticipate our customer needs and be empowered to act like an owner, take action and innovate. 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.

Google Workspace brings Gmail, Chat, Drive, Docs, Calendar, and Meet, together into a single experience where users can be productive across all channels. Our team's charter is to make it easier for Gmail users to communicate, both by refining existing work flows and in entirely new ways. Our day-to-day work involves multi-platform development for Gmail through data-driven experimentation on Generative AI features and the core surfaces of Gmail.

The web is what you make of it and our team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, we develop products that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and cloud platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$284,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of software engineers on highly visible efforts, including modernizing Gmail’s Core UX in the composer and conversation view.
  
• Work across teams to help improve Gmail at large.
  
• Lead product engineering teams on user-facing and data-driven features at scale. Analyze experiment results to drive iteration of product features.
  
• Provide technical guidance to the team, helping them reach their project goals. Build an inclusive and supportive environment, and help build a bench of leaders across Gmail.
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-organizatoin teams to shape the Gmail communications and core roadmap.