Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads Infrastructure

Mountain View, CA, USA

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in C++.
• 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Understanding how large-scale systems work and how their components interact.
• Experience with throughput and latency, automation.

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.

• Help run a highly reliable infrastructure that supports billions of dollars of business.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
• Build the infrastructure and quality machinery powering ads on all Google Search queries, including queries to e‑commerce partners and Google‑owned and operated properties.
• Help support numerous launches through a constantly evolving system, providing APIs, testing frameworks and tools/processes that enable high developer productivity and operational excellence.
• Build automation systems and related tools to operate this large and critical system at scale.
• Improve usability and performance of large distributed systems.

US: $174,000 – $253,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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