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Posted date: Aug 26, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Level: Director
Estimated salary: $244,000
Range: $197,000 - $291,000
Description
Provide technical leadership on projects. Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers. Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. Debug and profile scalable 3D experiences to ensure performance across devices and platforms. Collaborate with Seattle, Mountain View and Bangalore partner teams that are working on building out the new map experiences and platform capabilities.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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Geo’s Core Maps Platform group supports systems that consume geographic data, create a visual representation of it and apply cartographic generalization techniques to present the map at different scales, partitioned and packaged as map tiles. Our group owns the entire pipeline from server-side tile generation and publishing, to styling, serving, as well as the client-side platform components for rendering on Android, iOS and Web.
In this role, you will build the cartographic map platform that creates thoughtful and beautiful visuals of the geographic information powering Google Maps Consumer and Developer products, serves, styles and renders the map across all clients at scale. The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products. 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience developing and optimizing a public facing API/SDK. Experience in Android, iOS or Web development.Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms. 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
Extended Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products. 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Experience developing and optimizing a public facing API/SDK. Experience in Android, iOS or Web development.Check out other jobs at Google.