Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership)
Redmond, WAJob$219–301K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Meta seeks a principal engineer to lead technical direction and long-term roadmaps for large cross-company efforts. The role focuses on Android and other platform products, resolving performance and scalability issues, reducing technical debt, and collaborating with organizational leaders. The candidate will help build and improve products used by people around the world.
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Full job description
Summary:
Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect globally. If you're interested in leading a world-class team of engineers and researchers to work on exciting projects that have significant impact, we encourage you to apply.
Required Skills:
Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:
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Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
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Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
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Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
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Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
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Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
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Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
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Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
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Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
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Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
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Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
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12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
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Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management
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4+ years of experience building Android applications in Java using Android SDK
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Shipped at least one large-scale product to production, supporting millions of active users
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Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Public Compensation:
$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$219–301K/yr
- Washington median$144–216K/yr1,986 salary ranges
- US median$135–218K/yr33,367 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $260K, is 46% above the Washington median midpoint ($179K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,211 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 42,008 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,212 postings).
- Education
- 13,955 of the 42,008 open Software Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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