Senior Software Engineer, App Ads, Data and Measurement

About the role

Google Ads is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on its App Ads, Data and Measurement team. The team applies machine learning and Generative AI models such as Gemini to protect users, improve ad quality and optimise campaigns for advertisers' return on investment. Engineers work on a specific project critical to Google's needs, with opportunities to move between teams and projects.

Key responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Take part in, or lead, design reviews with peers and stakeholders to choose among available technologies.
• Review code written by others and give feedback on style, correctness, testability and efficiency.
• Contribute to documentation and educational content, adapting it to product updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug them by analysing their causes and impact on hardware, network or service operations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years testing, maintaining or launching software products, and 1 year in software design and architecture.
• 3 years of back-end development experience.
• Preferred: 5 years with data structures and algorithms, and experience with large software systems, distributed and parallel systems, networking, web applications, Unix/Linux, mobile apps or security software.
• Preferred: experience developing accessible technologies.