Staff Software Engineer to lead and coach engineers within the Google Ads team, focusing on full-stack development, generative AI integration, and high-scale system design to power global advertising advertising platforms.
US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
- Manage and coach a team of 6–10 software engineers across levels. Foster a collaborative culture and actively guide career growth, design leadership, and engineering craft.
- Lead full-stack system design from databases to agentic workflows. Review designs and code, advocating for sustainable patterns that reduce technical debt.
- Partner closely with Product Management and UX bringing strong product intuition to translate business goals into well-scoped, prioritized engineering roadmaps.
- Serve as a primary technical connector across other Ad Manager engineering, AdSense, AdMob, and other partner teams.
- Balance rapid feature delivery with platform reliability, while empowering the team to build and leverage generative AI and agentic capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
- Nice to have: People management experience
- Nice to have: managing front-end engineering teams
- Nice to have: driving front-end technical strategy
