Software engineer jobs in the United States

Find software engineer jobs across the United States. Choose a place, compare current openings and read the employer’s requirements.

Counted Oct 30, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 40,172
Employers: 7,690

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $146,086Across 9,494 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $62.37Across 1,426 listings
Average starting payCAD / year: $131,572Across 38 listings
Average starting payUSD / month: $18,821Across 25 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 9%3,787 listings
Hybrid: 8%3,128 listings
On-site: 14%5,549 listings

Not specified: 69% (27,708 listings)

Employers hiring include Akamai Technologies, Inc. (673), Lockheed Martin (589), JPMC page (581).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software engineer jobs in the United States

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Google

Staff Software Engineer, Creativity Foundations, Photos Create

Mountain View, CA, United States

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Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 14, 2026

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Staff Software Engineer, Creativity Foundations, Photos Create

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring processNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA .

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.
5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
Prior experience in launching full-stack mobile product features to consumers.
Enthusiasm for working on technological innovations and the capability to grow amidst associated ambiguities and challenges.

About the job

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.

Google Photos Create team aims for bringing joy to you and those around you, partnering to transform your moments into whatever you want, however you want, whenever you want. The team focuses on bringing Google’s gen media technologies to Google Photos while still giving users the controls to make the photo edits and collages they want, with our goal to deliver a delightful experience for Photos’ billion users to create assets that are easily snackable.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

Be an owner and build new creativity features, balancing innovative explorations and usages of gen media technologies and scrappy prototyping in a fast-moving space to find a good product-market fit for our new features.
Steer both short and long term technical investments in this space, and help set the direction for the team.
Lead collaboration efforts across Photos to elevate our team and expand the reach and capabilities of our tools.
Help the team grow full-stack to own features end-to-end.
Bring DevAI breakthroughs and best practices to elevate the broader engineering team.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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Decision making
Software development
Full-stack development
Oracle Java
Python
Go
C++
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML
CSS
Computer science
Distributed computing
Data storage
Natural language processing
UI design
Leadership
Recruitment

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