Senior Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Surfaces & Experiences

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's software engineers are building the next generation of technologies that power billions of users worldwide. You will influence the long-term engineering strategy for YouTube Ads, driving architecture choices and scaling systems to meet ambitious goals.

You will collaborate across teams to implement format optimizations and new experiences, leveraging state-of-the-art GenAI capabilities while ensuring reliability and safety for high-scale operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and optimizing ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture along with testing and launching software products.
• Experience working within Ads.
• Experience with state of the art GenAI techniques (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision).

Responsibilities

• Learn more about benefits at Google .
• Drive the long-term engineering strategy, incorporating organizational business priorities and technological shifts, such as new AI capabilities.
• Own key technical decisions based on your expertise, guiding the team through important design tradeoffs, short term/long term strategy, system health, and risk management.
• Identify system hotspots to improve the organization's technical health, ensuring the calculated investments are made to remove widely-felt barriers to productivity/feature throughput.
• Invest in growing the next generation of technical leaders through direct coaching and scalable mentorship initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure features are built consistently across different surfaces working closely with other teams, quality, client infrastructure teams while balancing specific platform constraints to make decisions that are best for the business overall.

Skills

Software development

ML design

ML infra

System design

Ads experience

GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS or related field

Job description

Google's software engineers are building the next generation of technologies that power billions of users worldwide. You will influence the long-term engineering strategy for YouTube Ads, driving architecture choices and scaling systems to meet ambitious goals.

You will collaborate across teams to implement format optimizations and new experiences, leveraging state-of-the-art GenAI capabilities while ensuring reliability and safety for high-scale operations.