Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Google Ads

Google Google · Big Tech · Irvine, CA +2

Google Ads is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and enhance software solutions for their advertising products. This role involves writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, triaging issues, and contributing to large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. While AI/ML is mentioned as a potential area of focus for Google's technologies, this specific role is within the Google Ads product suite, focusing on general software engineering and infrastructure.

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
  • testing
  • software product launch

Nice to have

  • Master's degree
  • PhD
  • Computer Science
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies