Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, YouTube Ads Surfaces and Experiences

About the Position

Join Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead for YouTube Ads Surfaces and Experiences, driving AI innovation and enhancing user experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-term engineering strategy, incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
• Own key technical decisions based on your expertise, guiding the team through important design tradeoffs, short term/long term strategy, system health, and risk management.
• Identify system hotspots to improve the organization's technical health, ensuring the calculated investments are made to remove widely-felt barriers to productivity/feature throughput.
• Invest in growing the next generation of technical leaders through direct coaching, scalable mentorship initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure features are built consistently across different surfaces working closely with YouTube organic, quality, client infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java or C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred Qualifications

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

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $262,000 - $364,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Opportunity to work on state-of-the-art AI and cutting-edge machine learning models.
• Collaborative environment partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind.
• Professional growth opportunities and the chance to switch teams and projects as you and our business evolve.

About the Company

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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.