Senior Software Engineer, Recommendations, Rankings, Predictions, Youtube Ads

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

Google is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement recommendation systems models for YouTube Ads, leveraging ML infrastructure and contributing to architecture. The role involves writing and testing code, collaborating with stakeholders, triaging issues, and deploying models in production.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement recommendation systems models across different domains, leverage ML infrastructure, and contribute to architecture design.
  2. Write and test product or system development code.
  3. Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. 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.
  5. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

Skills

Required

  • software development
  • recommendation systems
  • ML infrastructure
  • software design and architecture
  • model deployment
  • model evaluation
  • optimization
  • data processing
  • debugging

Nice to have

  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • accessible technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 3 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, personalization, search quality, embedding) in production
  • 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging)

Other signals

  • recommendation systems
  • ML infrastructure
  • production deployment
  • large-scale systems