Software Engineer II, Infrastructure, Search Ads
GoogleSwitzerland5 days ago
Full-timeInformation Technology, Engineering
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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.
Expanded Match is part of Ads Quality Zurich, which is part of Search Ads - the text ads shown on Google Search which power the majority of Google's business generation and connect millions of businesses to customers. We are a targeting team which means we select the ad candidates that enter the auction. Ads winning the auction show up on Google Search.
Our team, part of Expanded Match, focuses on retrieval and infrastructure. Our work spans from building a low-latency targeting infrastructure, efficiently and rapidly searching for relevant ad candidates through a large inventory, to developing and analyzing the business generation impact of newer retrieval models in partnership with research teams.
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
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
- 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
- 1 year of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience with information retrieval, Ad quality, and search quality.
- Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems, and applications in Search or Ads.
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.
Expanded Match is part of Ads Quality Zurich, which is part of Search Ads - the text ads shown on Google Search which power the majority of Google's business generation and connect millions of businesses to customers. We are a targeting team which means we select the ad candidates that enter the auction. Ads winning the auction show up on Google Search.
Our team, part of Expanded Match, focuses on retrieval and infrastructure. Our work spans from building a low-latency targeting infrastructure, efficiently and rapidly searching for relevant ad candidates through a large inventory, to developing and analyzing the business generation impact of newer retrieval models in partnership with research teams.
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 product or system development code. 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).
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
- 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.
- Own projects end-to-end from initial idea to design, analysis, and implementation. Understand production systems, visualize, monitor, and optimize performance.
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