Principal Engineer, Ads DevAI Platform

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Ads DevAI Platform team seeks a strong senior technical leader to design and accelerate Ads engineering workflows using AI. This role focuses on building foundational DevAI infrastructure, marquee agents, and AI-friendly systems to improve efficiency across ads products.

The candidate should demonstrate a track record of technical innovation in large, cross-functional environments and balance detailed guidance with big-picture strategy, helping drive Google's ads technology forward.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional engineering experience.
• Master's degree in CS/Math/Engineering is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and accelerate DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring extensibility and ROI.
• Provide official leadership for cross-cutting Ads AI projects and marquee agents.
• Drive AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases with eval-driven development and context integration.
• Lead technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform while mentoring Ads infrastructure engineers.
• Collaborate with senior teams to influence roadmaps and Google's broader Ads vision.

Skills

Technical leadership

Thought leadership

Systems thinking

Technical innovation

Ads product knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent practical experience

15 years of professional engineering experience

Master's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional experience in engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Experience providing technical leadership across a larger organization, including motivating others at all levels by creating a shared sense of vision and purpose.
• Knowledge of Google Ads products, the ecosystems our products and users exist in, and our competitors and their products.
• Ability to balance detailed, technical guidance with “big picture” strategy.
• Thought leadership to identify and design problems commensurate with PE scope and difficulty and a desire to solve hard engineering problems.
• A demonstrated track record of technical innovation within large, complex, and cross-functional engineering environments.

About the job:

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than in our Advertising: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users, especially when 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 Wallet) 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.

The Ads DevAI Platform team enables Ads to leverage the power of LLMs to accelerate optimizations, infra migrations, resource efficiency and more. The team builds the infrastructure and marquee agents required to enable AI-powered acceleration for Ads engineering workflows.

The Ads Platform team is seeking a strong senior technical leader to design and accelerate Ads engineering workflows using AI.

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.

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

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the foundational DevAI infrastructure for Ads, ensuring extensibility, applicability, and maximum ROI across all business verticals and functions.
• Provide technical leadership and uber-TL oversight for cross-cutting Ads Internal AI projects, including marquee agents, AI-friendly infrastructure, and strategic DevAI big bets.
• Drive the transition toward AI-forward architecture and self-managing codebases by enabling agentic evaluation-driven development, skills, and context integration.
• Lead the technical strategy and development for the DevAI platform and custom agents, while mentoringBusiness Account Managers (BAM)AI across Ads infrastructure organizations.
• Collaborate with uber-TLs across Ads PAGs, Core, and GDM to influence roadmaps, technical direction, and Google's broader Buying platforms and Ads vision.