Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Ads

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

Software Engineer role focused on developing and enhancing large-scale infrastructure for Google Ads, involving full-stack development, system design, and maintenance of software solutions. The role requires expertise in C++, distributed systems, and software architecture, contributing to products that serve billions of users.

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

  • C++
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture
  • data structures
  • algorithms

Nice to have

  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience programming in C++
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks