Senior Staff Full-Stack Architect for Large-Scale Ad Tech

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's YouTube Ads team seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the long-term engineering strategy for format optimizations and new experiences, including AI capabilities. You will own key technical decisions, guide architecture, and help scale advertising platforms across YouTube surfaces.

You will work with Google Ads to apply cutting-edge ML and Generative AI models, shaping a multi-billion dollar global business and impacting billions of users with improved ad quality and ROI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with full stack development across back-end and front-end.
• 5 years of experience architecting large-scale digital advertising systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-term engineering strategy, incorporating business priorities and AI capabilities.
• Make data-driven design decisions, balancing health, risk, and feature throughput.
• Identify hotspots to improve system health and investments.
• Mentor next-gen technical leaders through scalable programs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistent features across surfaces.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

C++

JavaScript/TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Large-scale systems

Architecting software

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google's YouTube Ads team seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the long-term engineering strategy for format optimizations and new experiences, including AI capabilities. You will own key technical decisions, guide architecture, and help scale advertising platforms across YouTube surfaces.

You will work with Google Ads to apply cutting-edge ML and Generative AI models, shaping a multi-billion dollar global business and impacting billions of users with improved ad quality and ROI.