Google's Ads team is tasked with optimizing value for advertisers, users, and Google through mechanism innovations. They need to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions to achieve this, collaborating with research, data science, and software engineering functions.
Requirements
- 5 years of experience with software development in C++.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- Experience in Auction and Mechanism design in industry or in an academic setting.
- 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
- Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (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.
- Design experiments to evaluate hypotheses and tease out small-but-crucial effects in improving user/advertiser value.
- Write and test both code and documentations to evaluate new auction mechanisms and improve existing ones.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
