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.

As a part of Ads Infrastructure, you are at the heart of the semantic revolution of Ads. You will work on advanced language processing systems to retrieve the most meaningful ads, such as giving advanced control to advertisers and providing signals to improve ad quality. You will build large distributed systems under strong latency constraints and offline computation pipelines.

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

• Design new sub-systems of Ads from the ground up (e.g., research, design, implementation, production).

• Review existing systems to improve performance or improve our match quality.

• Research, prototype and incorporate latest technologies in ads system.

• Understand product requirements of our clients and map them to a scalable, high performance, low latency Ads Infrastructure.

• Work closely with many teams such as Product Engineering teams, Quality Engineering, Search, Research and expanding the scope to more clients.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with software development, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.