Tech Lead Manager, Display and Video 360, Inventory and Deals

Google LLC; 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) with company match

PTO: 20 days per year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays per year

Job summary

Google LLC in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for the Display and Video 360 Inventory and Deals team. You will mentor engineers, own system architecture, and drive cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced, AI-enhanced environment.

You will balance leadership with hands-on coding, shape API designs across Java, Spanner, and Angular/Dart, and push modernization of data and serving layers while partnering with Google Research and DeepMind to deliver scalable advertising technology.

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.
• 3 years of experience leading project teams or technical direction.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a sub-team within the DV360 Inventory and Deals organization.
• Lead end-to-end system architecture and implementation across Java, Spanner, and Angular/Dart.
• Guide technical strategy for AI-powered NLP discovery roadmap and API specs with external exchanges.
• Balance people leadership with hands-on design, coding, and feature delivery.
• Drive architectural modernization of data and serving layers toward event-driven architectures.

Skills

Leadership experience in tech

AI/LLM integration

Distributed systems

Mentoring / team growth

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Tools

Java

Spanner

Angular/Dart

Job description

Tech Lead Manager, Display and Video 360, Inventory and Deals

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X In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. 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 and Deals 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 at the forefront of AI innovation, applying cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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 and Deals 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 at the forefront of AI innovation, applying cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI models like Gemini to power a multi-billion dollar global business.

Our work directly impacts billions of users by protecting users from harm, improving ad quality, and optimizing campaigns for advertiser return-on-investment. We foster a culture of deep collaboration, partnering closely with teams like Google Research and DeepMind to solve complex challenges. Join us to work on state-of-the-art AI, take on problems at an unparalleled scale, and build the next generation of advertising technology.

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

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• Manage and mentor a sub-team within the DV360 Inventory and Deals organization, fostering technical excellence, leadership, and strong engineering velocity.
• Lead the end-to-end system architecture and implementation of user-facing products and partner-facing APIs across Java, Spanner, and Angular/Dart.
• Guide technical strategy across our AI-powered natural language discovery roadmap, collaborate directly with engineers at external exchanges on API specifications, and ensure our 24/7 infrastructure scales reliably.
• Balance people leadership with technical contribution, spending approximately half of the time designing, coding, and landing critical features.
• Drive architectural modernization across our data and serving layers, deprecating legacy synchronous dependencies in favor of event-driven, push-down query architectures.

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