Principal Engineer, Messaging, Platforms and Devices

Benefits

Parental leave

18 weeks From the posting source

Non-birth-parent leave

18 weeks From the posting source

Family-building benefits

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Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

Salary

$307K-$428K From the posting source

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

228% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Posted salary is far from this role benchmark; treat it as low confidence.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Staff Plus From the posting source

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About this role

Principal Engineer, Messaging, Platforms and Devices San Jose, CA, USA; +1 more The Google Messages team is building the future of communication. We are a driving force behind the global adoption of Rich Communication Services (RCS), the modern industry standard that has fundamentally upgraded the default texting experience, replacing SMS and MMS. With over 2 billion users, RCS delivers a rich, modern messaging experience featuring high-resolution media sharing, typing indicators, read receipts, group chats, and end-to-end encryption. Beyond consumer-to-consumer communication, we are rapidly scaling RCS for Business. RCS for Business transforms how businesses connect with their customers by bringing interactive, branded, and secure conversational experiences directly into the user's default messaging app. The advent of generative AI is fundamentally transforming the discipline of software engineering, rapidly ushering in an era of autonomous coding agents. As the most senior technical leader in the organization, you will hold a dual mandate of immense strategic importance. First, you will define the architectural technical roadmap for the messaging platform, across both consumer and business messaging. Second, you will serve as the chief architect of our internal AI transformation, completely rethinking how our organization builds, tests, and deploys software. The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless,

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