Software Engineer Iii, Infrastructure, Ads Safety

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

Google is seeking a Software Engineer III for its Ads Safety team, focusing on building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems. The role involves writing product or system development code, participating in design reviews, reviewing code, contributing to documentation, and triaging/debugging system issues. While AI/ML is mentioned as a potential area of interest for engineers at Google, this specific role focuses on the infrastructure supporting these systems within the Ads Safety domain, rather than direct AI/ML model 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 C++ programming language
  • developing large-scale infrastructure
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • compute technologies
  • storage
  • hardware architecture

Nice to have

  • data structures and algorithms
  • building and maintaining highly scalable distributed systems in production environments
  • large-scale data processing technologies
  • infrastructure reliability
  • driving large-scale infrastructure transitions from legacy systems to modernized platforms