Software Developer III, Ads Infrastructure

Google LLC; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 153,000; Full time

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Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google Waterloo, ON, Canada is seeking a Software Developer III for Ads Infrastructure to help build scalable, developer-facing tooling and infrastructure. The role focuses on large-scale systems, performance, and collaboration across teams in a fast-paced environment.

As a Google Software Engineer, you will contribute to ads infrastructure, work on distributed computing challenges, and help advance AI-powered ad technology while ensuring robust, scalable systems and high-quality software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience in Python and C++.
• Experience in high-performance computing (HPC) concepts, development, or technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale developer-facing interfaces, tooling, and automated workflows that simplify the end-to-end experiment lifecycle, from creation to final launch and cleanup.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing sources of issues and impact on hardware, network, or service operations.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product updates and user feedback.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.

Skills

Python

C++

Distributed systems

HPC concepts

Large-scale infra

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Software Developer III, Ads Infrastructure

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• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage or hardware architecture.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Experience in Python and C++.
• Experience in high-performance computing (HPC) concepts, development, or technologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with large-scale data processing pipelines (e.g., Flume, MapReduce, SQL-like data processing engines).
• Familiarity with the concepts of online controlled experiments (A/B testing).

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.

Google Ads is at the forefront of AI innovation, applying cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $150000 - $153000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Build and scale developer-facing interfaces, tooling, and automated workflows that simplify the end-to-end experiment lifecycle from experiment creation and configuration, to progressive traffic ramp-ups and real-time metric monitoring, through final launch and cleanup.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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