Staff Software Engineer, Display and Video 360 Inventory

Google Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google Kirkland, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance DV360 Inventory. You will own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and solve complex problems while guiding a distributed engineering team across multiple projects.

Responsibilities include designing and delivering large-scale software, testing and launching products, and integrating AI workflows. The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Decision making

Ambiguity handling

Stakeholder influence

Software design

Software architecture

AI integration

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Display and Video 360 Inventory

Google Kirkland, WA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance


• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match


• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment


• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance


• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks


• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks


• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience in software development.


• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.


• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.


• Experience integrating generative AI tools or Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.


• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.


• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.


• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the 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.

As a part of the Display and Video 360 (DV360), Google's cross-exchange real-time bidding buying platform, you will help remake the way advertising is done on the internet, making it more targeted and more valuable. You will give customers access to 100 billion ad impressions per day as it is one of the fastest growing products at Google.

As a part of the DV360 Inventory Team, you will be responsible for building intelligent features that support enterprise customers (agencies and large advertisers) to efficiently discover inventory, negotiate deals, execute campaigns and maximize performance across the real-time bidding ads ecosystem. 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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.


• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.


• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.


• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.


• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions.

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