Software Engineer III, YouTube Ads Infrastructure

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 Software Engineer in this team, you will contribute to the growth of the YouTube Ads business by generating large business for Google, keeping the YouTube ecosystem growing by creator monetization, showing relevant ads to YouTube users and expanding advertiser base by delivering value to millions of advertisers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards the development of maintainable YouTube Ads infrastructure systems to support business growth.
• Write maintainable and tested code.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, and testability).
• Partner with other software engineers within the team to contribute towards our goals and scaling the system to support growth.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go or Java), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building or maintaining high-throughput services, or low-latency systems.
• Experience programming in C++.