Staff Software Engineer, Google Ads

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

Job Summary

Job Description

Google Ads seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead high-impact projects, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment across teams. Responsibilities involve managing project priorities, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale software solutions. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of software development experience, including expertise in data structures, algorithms, testing, product launches, and software design and architecture. Technical leadership experience and cross-functional project involvement are preferred. The role demands versatility, leadership, and enthusiasm for tackling full-stack challenges within a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • 8+ years software development experience
  • Data structures/algorithms expertise
  • Testing and product launch experience
  • Software design and architecture skills
  • Technical leadership and project management
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in related field
  • Technical leadership role experience
  • 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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