Senior Staff Engineer, Ads Platform — Agentic Experiences

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Senior Staff Software Engineer role in Ads Platform Agentic Experiences is based in Mountain View or New York. The engineer will drive technical leadership on high-impact projects and design large-scale software solutions for an ads platform initiative.

The position emphasizes ownership, cross-functional influence, and delivering agentic experiences that power Google Ads and AI-driven advertising capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience programming in C++.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.
• Lead zero-to-one agentic efforts from concept to compelling prototypes, owning the phase where the problem/solution is still undefined.
• Build end-to-end, covering agent design, tool surfaces, state, streaming, and the frontend experience, strongly shaping the implementation of a first version.
• Set the bar for AI-native user experiences, bringing in strong design judgement to a space where the interaction patterns are still being invented.

Skills

C++

System design

Leadership

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

Google's Senior Staff Software Engineer role in Ads Platform Agentic Experiences is based in Mountain View or New York. The engineer will drive technical leadership on high-impact projects and design large-scale software solutions for an ads platform initiative.

The position emphasizes ownership, cross-functional influence, and delivering agentic experiences that power Google Ads and AI-driven advertising capabilities at scale.