Staff Software Engineer, Google Ads

1 Month ago • 8-14 Years • Research & Development • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at Google Ads, you will provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, influence and coach a distributed team, and ensure alignment across teams. You'll manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing large-scale software solutions within Google's advertising ecosystem. This role requires significant experience in software development, testing, and architecture, along with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms. You'll work on projects critical to Google's needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you grow. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical expertise, leadership qualities, and a passion for tackling complex challenges across the full-stack.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • Expertise in data structures/algorithms
  • 5+ years testing & launching software
  • 3+ years software design & architecture
  • Technical leadership & project management
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in Engineering or CS
  • 3+ years technical leadership role
  • Cross-functional project experience

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • 3 years of experience working in an organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.

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