Still at Google, I was promoted to L5 for my contributions to the AV/VR efforts I'm part of. This is the crossover point at which you are considered a Senior Engineer.
Finally within the realm of what I consider to be a dream job, I'm now working on things involving the AR/VR tech space. Can't talk about specifics yet, but I'm very enthusiastic about the work I do.
After 2 long years of working on the Maps project, I left the team for the next opportunity at the company. I joined the Movies and TV division of Google Play to do a very similar subject of work but with a new goal. Similar to the work done for Maps where there was a special area dedicated to technical people to upload data to Google (the transit data) that improved the product, Google Play has a special section dedicated to movie studios to upload movies, TV shows, and other assets for them.
For example, someone at Warner Bros could potentially log in to upload The Joker when it came out, or come back a few weeks later to upload a revised Spanish subtitle track for the movie as well.
After a little over a year of learning the ropes out of school and contributing, I got my first project to lead, and it was called Transit Partners. It was a special section of Google Maps accessible only for transit operators, AKA the people who determine the routes and timetables of any given cities public transit system. Through this portal I was in charge of, they upload data to Google about GPS locations of where their busses stop, timetables of when that happen, info about road closures for construction/events, etc... This is done for ALL forms of public transportation from buses to trains to subways and everything in between. Nearly 100% of all public transit data flows through this tool for use by Maps route calculation engines
Although this tool already existed when I started on the project, it had organically grown since the inception of Google Maps into a 'messy' and non-optimal experience for users. The scope, use cases, and features of Maps had drastically changed but this crucial tool was stuck in the past. I was responsible with redesigning it from scratch (but keeping existing data storage layers intact) and had the help of 3 other engineers to do it.