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.
As a part of Search Ads Serving, you will build the infrastructure and quality machinery powering ads on all Google Search queries, including queries to e-commerce partners and Google owned and operated properties. You will join thousands of engineers across dozens of feature and quality teams developing this system.
In this role, you will help support numerous launches through a constantly evolving system, providing APIs, testing frameworks and tools/processes that enable high developer productivity and operational excellence.
As a part of Search's pivot toward AI-first experiences through AI Overview and AI Mode, you will help evolve the Ads Serving stack and prepare it for next-gen AI/Large Language Model (
LLM) capabilities.Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Help run a highly reliable infrastructure that's responsible for billions of dollars of business.
- Contribute code and designs as we build the next-gen AI/LLM-powered Ads serving infrastructure.
- Identify performance optimization opportunities and deliver latency/resource savings.
- Build automation systems and related tools to operate this large and critical system at scale.
- Improve usability and performance of large distributed systems.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience programming in C++.
- 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Understanding how large-scale systems work and how their components interact.
- Experience with Throughput and Latency, Automation.