Staff Software Engineer, Real Time Bidding

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.

As Google Ad Manager, we are responsible for the health and sustainability of the free internet. By serving ads on publisher sites with infrastructure supporting up to three million queries per second (QPS), we enable content providers to thrive. We promote open web and are highly focused on our publishers' success. Innovation is core to our mission: we help publishers grow by providing advanced advertising solutions. This includes easing integration across ad tags, providing controls, and offering novel solutions to facilitate new opportunities. You will join the Realtime Bidding Team. Our mission is to provide buyers programmatic access to publisher inventory.

In this role, you will focus on supply path optimization and bidder efficiency to help make Google the preferred demand channel for all our strategic partners.

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: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Ship code daily for the realtime bidding (RTB) system that executes tens of billions of times per day.
• Contribute to high-visibility projects driving hundreds of millions of dollars in incremental business growth.
• Drive and land innovations that shape how millions of publishers facilitate content and interact with Ad Manager.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across Google Sellside to drive projects to a sustainable, healthy steady state.
• Serve as a trusted steward of the core facilitate agreements library used by hundreds of millions of websites and apps.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with algorithms.

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.
• Experience in Ads or Ads serving.
• Experience with data analysis.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.