Senior Software Engineer, YouTube Ads Advertiser Optimization
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Minimum qualifications:
- 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).
Preferred qualifications:
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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