Software Developer III, Ads Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google is seeking software engineers to build scalable, high-performance systems and tooling. The role involves working on project-critical tasks across AI, distributed computing, and data storage spaces, with opportunities to switch teams as the company grows.

In-person interviews are common in the hiring process. Canada-based compensation ranges from CAD 150,000 to 153,000 with a 15% bonus target, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

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 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).

Skills

Large-scale infra

Distributed systems

Compute technologies

Storage/hardware

Python

C++

HPC concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

This position is for an existing position.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum 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.

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).
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• 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

Responsibilities

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• 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 workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .