Senior Staff Software Engineer, High Touch Support, Ads

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.
  
• 5 years of experience with distributed systems, design and architecture, and testing/launching software products.
  
• Experience in application engineering.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in architecture, with 5 years of experience architecting scalable distributed services.
  
• Experience working in software development with one or more of the following programming languages: Java, C/C++, Python.
  
• Experience with machine learning, artificial intelligence, large-scale distributed systems, and system design.
  
• Experience working in a large complex enterprise with matrix organization structure.
  
• Experience working with backend technologies or development of complex system software.
  

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.

Our Advertising and Commerce team believes that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and businesses around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Pay) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

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

• Lead and drive the technological direction and roadmap for the Cases team.