Google

Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads Infrastructure

Google$174K — $252K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of programming experience in C
  • 3 years developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems
  • 3 years testing or launching software products with 1 year in software design
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science preferred
  • 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms
  • 1 year in a technical leadership role preferred

Responsibilities

  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions
  • Support multiple launches through evolving software infrastructure
  • Contribute to the development of AI-first Ads Serving stack
  • Identify and implement performance optimization solutions
  • Build automation systems for large-scale operations
  • Enhance usability and performance of distributed systems

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Parental leave and family support
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work environment
Full Job Description
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.


About the job

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.

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 - $252000 (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.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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