Staff Software Engineer, Ads DocService

About the Position

We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Ads DocService at Google, focusing on large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and technical execution of core landing-page infrastructure capabilities.
• Partner closely with Ads teams to understand product requirements and create designs and long-term roadmaps that support them.
• Define short- and long-term technical roadmaps for the infrastructure.
• Drive pioneering, first-of-its-kind AI and technical features while ensuring robust, production-grade infrastructure.
• Optimize real-time performance, latency, and resource footprint across client architectures and use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
• 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.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 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.
• Understanding of how large-scale systems work and their components interact.

About the Job

Software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Products operate at massive scale and extend beyond web search. Engineers work on projects critical to business needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as the business evolves.

Engineers are expected to be versatile, demonstrate leadership, and take on new problems across the full stack. Using technical expertise, you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables; design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Ads DocService maintains signal repositories for landing pages, keywords, and creative text to enable Ads Quality. It provides backend processing frameworks to compute, store, and access rich signals used to optimize ads.

The team observes and understands every ad destination, including landing pages, keywords, queries, and creative visible to users, and makes this information available to clients. Advertising teams build products across search, display, shopping, travel, video advertising, and analytics, creating trusted experiences between people and businesses through useful ads and effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results.

We Offer

Benefits at Google.

About the Company

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.