Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Video Creatives

Google LLC; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 480,000 - 492,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Warsaw, Poland, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for YouTube Ads Video Creatives. This senior role focuses on shaping technical direction for high-scale video creation and optimization workflows, with opportunities to influence complex cross-functional projects.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate on AI/ML-enabled interfaces to integrate advanced generative media capabilities, while leading architecture and delivery across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in modern web technologies, frontend frameworks, and distributed web applications.
• Experience leading technical architecture, cross-functional projects, or mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop direct technical leadership and architecture.
• 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.

Skills

Web technologies

Frontend frameworks

Distributed web apps

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s/PhD (preferred)

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Video Creatives

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in modern web technologies, frontend frameworks, and distributed web applications.
• Experience leading technical architecture, cross-functional projects, or mentoring engineers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience building interfaces that incorporate AI/ML models, LLMs, or generative media workflows where user steering and refinement.

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.

We help advertisers create or enhance their (video) assets for optimal performance. Our goal is to combine human skill and creativity with AI to help advertisers create or enhance their video assets in the Google Ads buyside frontend.

Our team owns the core suite of advertiser-facing video creation and enhancement tools on the Google Ads buyside. Our team focuses on improving these flows and building new flows where the advertiser is in the loop to create and optimize videos.

We partner with major demand teams to integrate these flows deeply into the buyside, delivering a seamless and frictionless user experience.

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.

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.

We help advertisers create or enhance their (video) assets for optimal performance. Our goal is to combine human skill and creativity with AI to help advertisers create or enhance their video assets in the Google Ads buyside frontend.

Our team owns the core suite of advertiser-facing video creation and enhancement tools on the Google Ads buyside. Our team focuses on improving these flows and building new flows where the advertiser is in the loop to create and optimize videos.

We partner with major demand teams to integrate these flows deeply into the buyside, delivering a seamless and frictionless user experience.

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.

Poland: zł480000 - zł492000 (PLN) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Develop direct technical leadership and architecture.
• 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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