Senior Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Advertiser Optimization

Google • Mountain View, CA

1d • $174,000 - $255,000

About The Position

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.

The YouTube ads bidding team mission is to make every advertiser successful on
YouTube.

In this role, you will be lead the development of reliable, scalable offline and
serving infrastructure, innovating new direct response products, identifying and
eliminating sources of poor performance, and solving bidding optimization
problems.

You will be leveraging a blend of investigative analytics and high-scale
engineering to build next-generation infrastructure. Focused on solving
mission-critical problems through a hybrid approach of ML-driven optimization
and robust software design.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience programming in Python or C++.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).
• Experience with statistical analysis (e.g., probabilistic modeling).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with recommender systems or ads ranking.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• 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.
• Manage bidding optimization to ensure satisfying advertiser experience and to ensure that YouTube advertisers start seeing benefits immediately.
• Align retrieval scores with the auction to maximize the total spend across all advertisers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level