Software Engineer III, Ads Bidding

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Software Engineer III for Ads Bidding to advance the core bidding algorithms and related systems in Mountain View, CA. The role centers on building scalable services that influence auction pricing and advertiser value.

You will work on infrastructure, data analytics, and machine learning components, collaborating across teams to improve ads quality and overall product performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in Python or C++.
• 1 year of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing sources of issues and impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Python

C++

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Software Engineer III, Ads Bidding

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA

Experience Level

Mid

Overview

Google's software engineers develop 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.

Our Mission is to feed our ads campaigns with AI-powered bids, driving sustainable growth and maximizing advertiser value.

The Discover Ads team aims to bring premium quality ads to Discover users, and it will make a huge impact on advertisers and Google. There is a big focus on improving Ads Quality, and contributions in the bidding area would drive product quality and growth. Our team owns the core bidding algorithm and feedback loop that go into Auction ranking and pricing.

Our projects are a mixture of infrastructure, algorithms, data analysis, and machine learning work. 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 Salary:

$147,000 - $210,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in Python or C++.
• 1 year of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with data analytics or bidding platforms.

Additional Information

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Location

• Mountain View, CA, USA

Experience Level

• Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.