**Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C). + 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience writing applications in Android or working with the Android OS. + Experience in creating, characterizing and evolving the architecture of complex systems. + Experience mentoring and growing technical talent. + Experience in C++. + Experience using performance analysis tools (tracing, profiling) or debugging tools. + Knowledge of the Linux Kernel. Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally. Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. 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. **Responsibilities:** + Use tracing, stack sampling and metrics tools to learn about how applications and platform subsystems are using core OS constructs. + Improve, scale and optimize core OS components to make them resilient. + Work with various product teams, first-party apps and Android verticals (Wear, TV, Auto) to design and build new features for them, while keeping the solutions generic and flexible enough to benefit multiple form factors and apps. + Be part of and contribute to our engineering practices (e.g., design reviews, code reviews, team discussions, etc.). + Identify anti-patterns in applications and work with application developers to improve them. 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.