Software Engineer Iii, Discover Ads Formats

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

Software Engineer III role at Google within the Discover Ads Formats team, focusing on building user-facing products and underlying infrastructure for ad formats. The role involves writing product/system development code, participating in design reviews, code reviews, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging product issues. Requires a Bachelor's degree and experience in Python or C++, with preferred qualifications including a Master's/PhD, data structures/algorithms experience, video playback experience, and full-stack development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write 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 in Python or C++
  • testing, maintaining, or launching software products

Nice to have

  • data structures and algorithms
  • video playback across iOS or Android
  • full-stack development