Senior Software Engineer, Google Ads

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Google Ads is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain large-scale advertising products. The role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code from peers, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. The ideal candidate will have experience with software development, large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and potentially AI/NLP technologies, though the core focus is on general software engineering for advertising platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • programming languages
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies