Google

Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Experiences

Google • $207K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and infrastructure
  • 5 years of software product testing and launching experience
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows
  • Experience using AI to solve real-world technical problems

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate alignment across teams on goals and outcomes, while coaching a distributed engineer team
  • Leverage AI to solve complex layout and interaction challenges for enhanced product designs
  • Partner with YouTube's product teams to innovate app experiences, transforming user interactions
  • Lead efforts to enhance the ad experience from infrastructure to UI
  • Drive the optimization and innovation of ad experiences on high-revenue consumption surfaces

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Retirement savings plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Employee development programs
  • Wellness initiatives
Full Job Description
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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.
  • Experience applying AI (Gemini, GenAI, LLM) towards solving real-world technical problems.

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.


Responsibilities
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines, and influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Leverage AI strategically to solve complex layout and interaction problems, using it or not for its own sake but to build smarter, more adaptive products.
  • Partner directly with YouTube's "Organic" product teams to re-envision the app experience, going beyond simply adding ads by helping build step-function changes to how users interact with the YouTube App.
  • Lead the effort to reduce friction between an ad and its destination, owning the full-stack, from deep infrastructure and foundation layers to the application-level UI.
  • Drive the next-generation of ad experiences, especially on Consumption Surfaces (Watch, and Shorts surfaces, account for 87% YT ads revenue), by optimizing existing inventory and innovating new experiences to meet evolving user and advertiser needs.


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

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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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